hairyian Posted June 10, 2011 Report Share Posted June 10, 2011 Have been on the phone to o2 for over an hour today regarding coverage in Shetland .The wife I spoke to was helpful , she even phoned me back twice .She asked me to get everyone I know with o2 to ring 08448470202 to register their complaints .Maybe if enough of us call something might be done .PS I still don't have coverage but she said she would phone back tomorrow when she had spoken to technitions . I though you had cancelled your O2 contract ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keedle Posted June 10, 2011 Report Share Posted June 10, 2011 I had every intention of cancelling but after hearing others horror stories with Vodaphone I decided against it .Any way I spoke to wife on o2 and she is now saying there is nothing wrong with signal in Shetland ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shetlandpeat Posted June 10, 2011 Report Share Posted June 10, 2011 I think some of the problems are the modern phones. The smaller they become, the smaller the antennae. I remember you could buy extended or external antennae for the 3310 if you had a reception problem.May be worth sticking with the chunky phones. Especially if you rely on it as we seem to now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairyian Posted June 10, 2011 Report Share Posted June 10, 2011 I had every intention of cancelling but after hearing others horror stories with Vodaphone I decided against it .Any way I spoke to wife on o2 and she is now saying there is nothing wrong with signal in Shetland ! That is because the service is up to O2 specification.The fact that their service is not suitable for 'your' needs is largely irrelevant to O2. If they thought they could get a few thousand extra customers by providing a better service, they might reconsider. The calculation here will be based on the estimated 'additional' income, less the espenses of putting that infrastructure in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hector's House Posted June 12, 2011 Report Share Posted June 12, 2011 Has the vodafone mast at scalloway gone offline? My girlfriend says she's had Emergency Calls Only displayed since last night and a neighbour has no service either, so I'm hoping it's not another fault with her simcard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizzyKipper Posted June 12, 2011 Report Share Posted June 12, 2011 The Orange mast down south doesn't appear to be working... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tins Posted June 12, 2011 Report Share Posted June 12, 2011 Phoned them this morning and got no sense whatsoever, but thats nothing new! He estimates it will be on at 0930 on 15JUN, cant see that happening though! Last summer it was down for 2 weeks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalklate Posted June 12, 2011 Report Share Posted June 12, 2011 I'm with Vodaphone and live in Scalloway. I've had no signal all day. I was thinking it might be my fault because for once I had used up enough credit to get free weekend texts !!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yarnin Posted June 12, 2011 Report Share Posted June 12, 2011 I am the girlfriend that Hector's House mentions above -still no vodafone signal -very frustrating -how do you contact vodafone anyway? Website doesn't appear to be very helpful.What really annoys me - apart from the fact that I do rely on my mobile -well as much as you can in Shetland, is that yet again we are being ripped off here, we are paying for this so called 'service' be it by contract or PAYG.Grrrr......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spinner72 Posted June 12, 2011 Report Share Posted June 12, 2011 that really does explain all. I never could figure out why anyone would choose a blackberry, the browser used to drive me crazy. I like the blackberry as nothing else compares for email and calendar functionality. The browser basic for sure but is more logically designed than any I have seen on andriod or iPhone, and sure it is slow at 2g speeds but that is easily 95% due to flashy and wasteful website design than anything else. Just do what we all did on dialup, turn off images and plugins and the plain text doesn't take too long to appear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ng7627 Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 Has anyone else had a problem with O2 network coverage over the last couple of days? Here in Vidlin we've had no signal Saturday night Sunday and so far this morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizzyKipper Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 The Orange mast down south doesn't appear to be working... It's back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daegerty Posted June 28, 2011 Report Share Posted June 28, 2011 Welcum to the Owwinge ansafuhn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleJoannie Posted July 18, 2011 Report Share Posted July 18, 2011 The BBC have launched a campaign to crowdsource the UK's mobile coverage http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14159357 We're mounting an ambitious project to try to map mobile coverage across the UK - and, if you have an Android phone, you can be part of it. From today you can download an app which will record the signal you're getting on your phone - 3G, 2G or nothing - and feed the data back to our research project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 The BBC have launched a campaign to crowdsource the UK's mobile coverage http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14159357 Since installing after arriving in Shetland a week ago, my results are 3G - 12% 2G - 65%No coverage - 23% Where's the 3G - presume Lerwick?And I'd also assume that the app isn't network specific and the 3G could be O2 even though I'm Vodafone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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