Tu Go Launches on O2

baby_frogmella

O2 already offer a femtocell boostbox (ala Vodafone Suresignal) which connects to your router for 3G coverage...however at present its for business users only. I would have thought that eventually it would be available to residential users as well but now not so sure after the launch of this app
http://www.o2.co.uk/enterprise/products-and-services/managed-networks/internet
http://static.o2.co.uk/www/docs/business/boostbox_qsg_guide_standard_v4_lr.pdf

NFH

baby_frogmella wrote: »

O2 already offer a femtocell boostbox (ala Vodafone Suresignal) which connects to your router for 3G coverage

That provides phone service only in one location. Tu Go provides phone service in many locations where there is a wifi network but no signal from O2 UK, for example on the Tube and abroad.

diamonds

Where you can use UMA not a wifi calling app for decent quality, now the difference between both is one is wifi, one is wifi dependent hardware.

One would guess the settings cover both? BlackBerry can be programmed the UMA settings, Google Orange SignalBoost settings... Then find o2 settings

SaveTheEuro

It seems one advantage of TU is free calls to UK mobiles when abroad. A ten minute call on Skype costs £1.78. With TU you pay nothing but 10 minutes is deducted from your monthly call allowance.

NFH

SaveTheEuro wrote: »

It seems one advantage of TU is free calls to UK mobiles when abroad. A ten minute call on Skype costs £1.78. With TU you pay nothing but 10 minutes is deducted from your monthly call allowance.

When abroad, the advantage is not only calls to UK mobiles, but all outgoing calls, incoming calls and outgoing texts which will be charged as if you're in the UK, i.e. from inclusive allowances in many cases and free in the case of incoming calls.

lil.smartie

UMA works seamlessly though. Lived for 10 months in a valley with no signal of any description bar Sky & a phone line and could use my blackberry as a mobile as normal whilst my husbands iPhone sat doing nothing except emails

Kate

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lil.smartie wrote: »

UMA works seamlessly though. Lived for 10 months in a valley with no signal of any description bar Sky & a phone line and could use my blackberry as a mobile as normal whilst my husbands iPhone sat doing nothing except emails

Kate

I'm still quite surprised that UMA never took off, it does seem like an ideal solution having the 'boost' built into the OS.

Tu Go still feels quite clunky. There's annoyances - e.g. when you get an SMS the tugo app beeps, then the regular SMS app beeps. Also, when you're making a 'Tu Go' call, once the screen goes black, and you try to get back to it, the call 'vanishes' and you need to go back to the dial-pad to find it. Android can be far clever than that, and they need to make use of it

SaveTheEuro

I've made a few calls back to the UK from abroad using Tu Go and have been surprised at how good the sound quality is. It seems to work better than Skype but I'm not sure why.

indesisiv

I would like to give this a whirl, but sadly for some reason the xperia s is not supported

Oh well added to my wish list until they update the app.