Warning - Don't Go With Orange

going2die_rich

Before blaiming orange for it's signal strength in your home, don't you think you should blame yourself for being so stupid?

Their are plenty of sites out their that can tell you what the signal is like in your area. Surely you did some reasearch before buying since it was a vital part for your work. Not to mention if it was so important you'd have tested it properly and returned it promptly.

I am sure orange would love to have 100% connectivity world wide but it isn't going to happen anytime soon, even a child could tell you that.

Try doing some research before throwing your money away next time and then blaiming others before yourself.

larsony

Steve1221 - I don't think your post is particularly helpful. The point I am making is simply that you would expect a good signal where I live. Had you read my post properly you'd have noticed that I mentioned I live within walking distance of the BT tower. This is one of the biggest bloody phone masts in the country - I clearly have no problem living next to a phone mast.

Tallymanjohn, DerekDuvall, hurrah, indesisiv, Ellejay20 and Indy - thanks for your advice. I'll try changing the handset. Incidentally I have an LG Chocolate - my girlfriend's choice I'm afraid.

redux

What is the house made of? It may be that you'd have a problem there with any phone or network, so hurling obscenities at people for a typing mistake isn't likely to ameliorate it.

steve1221_2

larsony wrote:

Steve1221 - I don't think your post is particularly helpful. The point I am making is simply that you would expect a good signal where I live. Had you read my post properly you'd have noticed that I mentioned I live within walking distance of the BT tower. This is one of the biggest bloody phone masts in the country - I clearly have no problem living next to a phone mast.

I'm sorry you feel that, but the whole point of giving customers 14 days to change thier minds is so they can test the phone and make sure it does what they want it to. A major point is coverage, if you get a new phone and take it away for those 14 days your losing out on that.

And BT tower maybe in walking distance, but it's BT tower it's not an Orange mast and may even be blocking an Orange mast, either physicly or with signel from one of it own masts.

espresso

larsony wrote:

Had you read my post properly you'd have noticed that I mentioned I live within walking distance of the BT tower. This is one of the biggest bloody phone masts in the country...........

:doh:

Wrong, you see a tall building and jump to the conclusion that it must be a phone mast and an Orange one at that! The BT Tower does not have mobile aerials on it and is actually used for providing telecoms transmission links carrying TV, voice and data traffic via microwave radio, to other parts of the country. i.e. nothing local.

If you are only eight minutes walk from the BT tower however, you will have many Orange base stations in the locality, much nearer to you than the tower.

So if anyone if thick around here, it is you!

:rotfl:

jassi_9

going2die_rich wrote:

Before blaiming orange for it's signal strength in your home, don't you think you should blame yourself for being so stupid?

lol

lol

larsony

espresso wrote:

:doh:

Wrong, you see a tall building and jump to the conclusion that it must be a phone mast and an Orange one at that! The BT Tower does not have mobile aerials on it and is actually used for providing telecoms transmission links carrying TV, voice and data traffic via microwave radio, to other parts of the country. i.e. nothing local.

If you are only eight minutes walk from the BT tower however, you will have many Orange base stations in the locality, much nearer to you than the tower.

So if anyone if thick around here, it is you!

:rotfl:

Describing me as 'thick' for not knowing whether or not the BT tower transmits mobile phone traffic misses my original point - which was that I do not have a problem living near a tower which transmits microwaves. That you miss the point suggests to me, and other readers, that you have struggled to read and understand basic English. Far be it for me to call you thick but ...

Doublespresso

regardless who's right or wrong, why can't this discussion be conducted without insults?

Try, it's not that difficult.

redux

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sgx.saint

I got a phone on the Orange network and the reception in my house is appalling. I use it for work at home and it barely picks up 1 bar. Speaking to clients is embarrassing because sometimes the reception simply cuts out. Retrieving messages is Kafka-esque taking sometimes 15 times before it'll play the message all the way through without the signal failing.

Sadly I went away on holiday the day I got the damn thing and by the time I got home my trial period had run out. I am now stuck with it for the next 18 months.

Oh ... where do I live? The wilds of Scotland. Nope. The Welsh valleys. No way. I live in central London. I can walk from my front door to the base of the BT tower in approximately 8 minutes.

Thanks a bunch Orange.

May I ask why you decided to buy a contract mobile phone to use at home for business calls?

Would it not have been cheaper and easier to use your existing landline or get a new one installed. Thats a rhetorical question by the way as I know it would have been far cheaper

Infact you could still do that now, get a landline installed or use your existing one. Find the cheapest provider for business landline calls, although I am sure that all providers would be cheaper than Orange. Then when you go out from home divert your home phone to your new Orange phone. That way you wont miss any calls and hopefully your signal out and about will be better than at home.

Also, drop your line rental down on your phone to balance the difference between using your landline and your mobile.

Thats just my suggestion/thoughts