Mobile Network Coverage / Performance at Oxegen

flywheel

So, hope anyone who went down at the weekend had a great time (and didn't get too wet!)

I just took down a Vodafone handset, and it was pretty dire, about 1 in 5-10 attempts to make a call succeeding - suppose being Ireland's most Popular mobile network isn't such a good thing in these situations... also on the way home one person in the car got a flood of SMS messages that were backlogged from the day....

One friend on O2 was having a bit more success, but didn't have any Meteor handsets in the group... so did you have loads of hassle too or were your calls pretty much trouble free... if commenting mention which Operator were you were using...

BrianG

BrianD

Had the same problem with VF. Every now and then you would get a burst of messages and voice mail messages.

Spoke to a guy who had a Meteor he was smiling at the fact he was able to make calls and receive texts all day. I take it he wasn't calling anybody on the other networks!

Stark

I found O2 to be a bit better. Performance has gotten better these days. My first Witnness I couldn't use a phone at all not even to text.

Also noticed performance varied depending on location within the venue. Performance was totally dire over by the Ticket stage area, was better over in the green room area.

Tazzle

Average of 2 hour delay on texts over o2 to vodafone. Calls were particularly hit and miss. Overall o2's network performance was pretty dire to atrocious. GPRS was great though...

moshpit77

I was on meteor and had abosolutely no trouble. there was a couple of occasions my call failed to go through and I had to redial but nothing more than normal. all txts went through instantly

seamus

Originally posted by moshpit77
I was on meteor and had abosolutely no trouble. there was a couple of occasions my call failed to go through and I had to redial but nothing more than normal. all txts went through instantly

That's quite good. I'd guess there would have been more than the fair share of studenty types at that, so meteor subscribers would probably have been overrepresented.

G

Coverage was brutal at oxegen on o2. Although when my battery died I switched my sim into a friends 3510i and a load of texts came into me. Also, the only friend I could contact everytime I could connect was another guy with an 086 3510i. Weird.

daveirl

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Sinner_Rez

Coverage is always going to be useless at events like that. People with meteor phones might have been smiling but what happens when they go abroad and there are no agreements with other operators and they get screwed on roaming charges.

If you want comms at a gig like that get yourselfs some walkie talkies. Great craic altogether.

flywheel

Originally posted by Sinner_Rez
Coverage is always going to be useless at events like that.

not if the operator's implement enough additional capacity... i spotted mobile base stations at the event but, at least with the Vodafone handset I was using, it wasn't enough to provide a decent service

BrianG

deckie27

Have connections with all networks.

From experience brought my meteor sim

OK it may have taken 20 - 30 seconds to connect but always got there whether it was mates answer machine at oxygen or out side never failed

Meteor rock at festivals (don't use much else)

Dec