Reciving Call's on Orange

Jon_01

You can't 'get out of contracts'. If you could there's be no point in them in the first place.

If you'd have taken it back in the first few days you'd have been fine, but after this long you've little or no chance. Orange and T mobile start their mast sharing from tomorrow, thing should improve after that as you'll have twice as many masts to connect to. . .

BigLee_24

Jon_01 wrote: »

You can't 'get out of contracts'. If you could there's be no point in them in the first place.

If you'd have taken it back in the first few days you'd have been fine, but after this long you've little or no chance. Orange and T mobile start their mast sharing from tomorrow, thing should improve after that as you'll have twice as many masts to connect to. . .

Thats what Im hoping if not I do believe my contract is finished in March so bye bye Orange for me.... :beer:

lozzaman

Jon_01 wrote: »

You can't 'get out of contracts'. If you could there's be no point in them in the first place.

If you'd have taken it back in the first few days you'd have been fine, but after this long you've little or no chance. Orange and T mobile start their mast sharing from tomorrow, thing should improve after that as you'll have twice as many masts to connect to. . .

Jon - I'm signed up for this (as a T-Mobile customer)
I expect they'll be a SIM update as at the moment my phone will know not to try and roam on Orange? I tried manually just and as I expected I get 'SIM not allowed on network' or similar message.
I'm also assuming that as a T-Mobile customer the phone would rather hold onto a -103dBm T-Mobile signal rather than say a -70dBm Orange one until the full consolidation of the networks take place?
I guess one could manually select the network and force it to stay on the other network the whole time?

Jon_01

lozzaman wrote: »

Jon - I'm signed up for this (as a T-Mobile customer)
I expect they'll be a SIM update as at the moment my phone will know not to try and roam on Orange? I tried manually just and as I expected I get 'SIM not allowed on network' or similar message.
I'm also assuming that as a T-Mobile customer the phone would rather hold onto a -103dBm T-Mobile signal rather than say a -70dBm Orange one until the full consolidation of the networks take place?
I guess one could manually select the network and force it to stay on the other network the whole time?

Yeah, the updates should be going out asap (I believe).

Mines already done, and I'm getting full bars on T where I was getting 1 to 2 on Orange.
You do have to put data roaming on (at least I do on my Android handset), which I'm not a fan of in case I forget to switch it off when I go outside the UK !!
Other than that everything looking very good !!

lozzaman

Thanks Jon. Guess they have a lot to send out, hence I've been trying manually anyway. I've seen reports of 'data roaming' not been enabled since next year, but I assume this means 3G?
T's coverage is a bit better here than O's but I do know of a few places where the opposite is true, so certainly worth having.

For the people with problems with Orange in this thread it also gives them a chance to use T Mobile's network instead. Hopefully that doesn't have the same problems in their area.

drbesty

The updates won't go out automatically, you have to opt in, either on the website or by phoning Orange and asking