T-mobile/Orange Merger (Everything Everywhere)

atlantis187

What are the early indications of this have people already started receiving better signal than before?

I know it doesnt go live till 5th Oct. Just thougght they might have started testing it early.

Please post back any comments or feedback.

eranou

From today you can now roam on the orange network on 2g only

you have to sign up as it is still in test stage

https://www.t-mobile.co.uk/online-optin/check-eligibility/


I have done a couple of test calls and texts on orange Im a T-Mobile customer all were fine.

VillanUK

For me it hasnt helped one bit ( still cant use my work mobile at home ) so joined O2 ( personal phone ) and hey presto..i can now use my mobile phone.. I travel the UK quite a lot, and noticed that O2 seem to have a better coverage..

lozzaman

Works here fine also, though am a T-Mobile customer and the T-Mobile signal is quite a bit better than Orange here anyway.
VillanUK - I would probably agree with that on their 2G network as a generalisation. There are however plenty of exceptions. For example when I was in Cornwall, T-Mobile, 3 and Orange had excellent 3G coverage of the village. Vodafone and o2 had nothing whatsoever.

Money_Grabber13579

I've locked my T-Mobile phone unto Orange permanently because the reception is much better than the non existent I was getting.

lozzaman

For non-existent coverage you shouldn't need to leave it 'locked to Orange' - it should now just switch back (after registering on Orange once) on Automatic.
If you mean you were getting 1 bar of T-Mobile before, then you would need to select manual to stop it using T-Mobile.

glenderg

atlantis187 wrote: »

What are the early indications of this have people already started receiving better signal than before?
Please post back any comments or feedback.

Right now i'm in a no tmobile signal area with two phones on tmobile nither have a signal.
One phone on orange has a signal.
So not happening here yet & not holding my breath.

lozzaman

Glenderg - have you opted in today here? You get a text to reply 'Yes' to. You then need to go to the settings on your phone and select Orange.
I notice that the Orange opt in page now returns an internal server error.

robbies_gal

wot about the other way round

im on orange and opted in on their site a while ago i havent heard anything about it since

lozzaman

There is a flaw of course that you need a signal to do the above in the first place!

lozzaman

gabbyevs wrote: »

wot about the other way round

im on orange and opted in on their site a while ago i havent heard anything about it since

Go here today. Looks like the T-Mobile process.

But it doesn't work at the moment, returning an internal server error when you fill the form in. Orange once again never ceases to muck up.