O2, you listening?

strecker

Just a quicky: 5 years ago I ported from you to Vodafone. At the time it was a work decision. I used to have a good o2 signal where I live. Now, I'm 'fighting' with Vodafone, and I was damn sure I'm porting back to o2 once my Voda credit is used up, but today I realise that in the last 5 years your signal here actually got worse! I'm in Mayo, so little surprises me, but you'd think as infrastructure improves you'd get some sort of improvement?!?!?!

As a matter of fact: it actually got noticeably worse even since last xmas. are you leaving mayo?

wmpdd3

Tell them you'd like to offer your garden as a location for a new mast. Problem Solved!

strecker

wmpdd3 wrote: »

Tell them you'd like to offer your garden as a location for a new mast. Problem Solved!

True! You caught me being a hypocrite/consumer!
Query withdrawn!
Health before 3g!

strecker

.... Actually...
a P.S.: I'm OK with a poor signal...(wasn't kidding above), but how come the O2 signal seems to be getting worse? Or are phones getting worse in that regard? (I mentioned last xmas, cause I was using an iPhone that hardly got any signal at all, while my e71 with that O2 sim was doing 'okay'... Now, I'm getting between 1 bar and nothing...hmmm

Calebmcd

I'm in Westport.

I'll never(in the next 2 years) go back to O2, they are the most expensive now. And the service is the same as the rest.

Meteor, well i've just never liked there service. But a Phone like the Hero could change that. Maybe I underestimate them. Its been a while since i've been with them.

Vodafone, well when i'm not with them they have the best signal. When i'm with them they don't?!

Currently with Three, the best I feel. But guess what i'm not sticking with them. 2 years and no improvements. My signal has degraded.

So overall, nobody must live in MAYO. Why? Because they all say 98% coverage for the population of Éire. But i'm usually stuck with all average, 1 great or no signal at all.

So when choosing i go:

1. Price

2. Phone

3. Package

4. Signal

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Woops I left out Tesco, well I don't view them as an option.
And Digiweb's service 088 never surfaced.

4 years with O2 (Inc Digiweb)
3 years with Vodafone (Inc Eircell)
2 years with Meteor
2 years with Three

(Covering Galway and Mayo)

MunsterCycling

Mustn't forget, Mayo is the county of objectors and protesters at the slightest infrastructural change / improvement.

No wonder the networks have cut their losses and just not bothered to update their bases in the county, do people actually realise how little is emitted from a mobile phone base station in comparison to a mobile phone with a weak signal having to up the power output to connect to the "safe" (read not in my backyard) base station miles away.

/rant

strecker

Thanks for the replies,,,

@Calebmcd,
You got a point; the 98% coverage sounds great, but the 2% seems strategically placed - pinpointing the exact locations I'm most frequently trying to use my phone in !

Still...
As to the 'Mayo the protest county' - sure, phonemasts are unpopular; but Rossport aside: Really? The ESB is running amok here! No one seems to care much. They constantly 'upgrade', which mostly means daylong outages because they replace one blo*dy post somewhere in nowhereskinaffe... Or they do a job they actually announce to last 2 weeks which then lasts 4 months...

Anyhoo, back to my question.
In the 4 1/2 years I've been with Vodafone their signal did improve - surely they deal with the same 'mayo mentality' of 'protesters and objectors'... Even 3, in my experience, did get a bit better.
It's o2 and Meteor whose signal seems to get worse where I live.

But I guess it's a bit pointless to speculate?

MunsterCycling

3 are a virtual provider out that way, have no network of their own IIRC

Davy

MunsterCycling wrote: »

3 are a virtual provider out that way, have no network of their own IIRC

3 do have their own 3g network. They use vodafone in areas where they dont have their own 3g coverage. In westport their coverage map shows 3g is available.