I would value your experience before I go chasing my provider for a better service. I have a decent phone - HTC One - and I am with O2, a reasonable London network by any standard. When I sit in PU, I get no phone signal, no 3G and can't send or receive texts!! One of the reasons I have a smart phone is to be able to do all those things at the footie!! Is it just me? Any solutions out there? Will 4G solve my problems? Another £5 per month at the moment. Any knowledge and experience gratefully received.
I've had similar problems with 3G on both O2 and Vodaphone. I think the phone and text stuff works ok though. It says there is a 3G signal, but won't connect the the web. I've always assumed it's because of stunningly high usage levels in a very concentrated area. Shame there does not seem to be a BT wi-fi hotspot in the stadium, but I suppose that would suffer from the same problem. Doesn't worry me too much, I'm easily distracted so not having a toy to play with helps me concentrate on swearing under my breath for 95 minutes. For such a small and densely populated country our 3G, 4G and free wi-fi coverage is pathetic. I get off a plane in most countries and get an instant full strength 3G signal. I think my iPhone is 4G enabled, but I've never picked up a signal in the UK. Vodaphone also send me constant irritating texts when I'm traveling about what data package I'm on and how much its costing me.
Thanks Sb_73. I am sure you are right re the high level usage in a small area. Any 4G users with a different experience?
I have exactly the same phone on exactly the same network and I have exactly the same problems mate! It occasionally works when there are not many people around so it might be related to that
Interesting. Thanks for that. Calling Apple users - any difference? I wonder if we could lobby O2 to set up a hot spot there??
Maybe 4G is the answer then. Can any techies tell me whether 4G enhances the text and telephony or is it just the internet? Cheers.
4G will not improve call quality or texting capability AFAIK unless you use internet based messaging - such as iMessage.
My machine doesn't work in Z6 and believe me I have told it off many times ... I hate my little machine as much as I love it. Anyone on here heard of choking? ... Very Naughty. At home now in South West London. I have as you may guess a lot of tech. I have a battle with my EE router each week as to the second each day I get choked. having up to 30 meg broadband is a lot different than actually getting it. My little machine works better on 4G at times when EE are on their choking duties so much so that I Airplay Netflix straight onto our Apple TV at times from little machine's older brother: Ipad bastard I know at LR that little machine is being choked or blocked and I actually like it so I can enjoy the football and no longer broadcast pictures to people who may be doing things a lot more boring. I don't pay the full whack you see to EE whereas my son pays double ... guess what his machines works fine and dandy ... except he lives in an area without 4G or any level of acceptable coverage so relishes his trips to London where he experiences a rapid fire social media experience with his audience ... often he misses the action. Mrs DT also infected and has her head inside hers all the time it seems as her broadcast her own news channel. A fix ... yes at home there is one ... Ping the exchange however this currently takes 15 days IME .... If you can leave on a you tube channel for 15 days so as to get up your recorded demand for the product you pay for ... its works like a credit rating for download speeds ...use it and you should get good speeds. I get stuck however as often as said i have to reboot my router and start over but today at Lat i have beaten the system of choking ... Mobile tech is no different and if you pay full dollar you get blocks and choking scripts removed. I haven't bothered as its still really just a telephone although 63% of all email are now opened on these devices .... good for me as I get to make more money using responsive designs I learnt this from an insider in the comms industry years back and still stand by it.... what have they got to sell if not data? ... saturation in Tech is happening and clever drip feeding tactics are where the money is made. with a potential 18,000 people trying to communicate from one place. Interested to know on here if we have anyone who works on the inside ... a puppet master?
I think a lot of these problems are to do with traffic. There are thousands of people sitting right next to you, trying to do the same thing.
It's not too bad on T-Mobile/EE for me. Works about 50% of the time inside the stadium. Edit: The 3G that is, texts and phone calls are always fine.
I use an o2 based network and can send and receive texts on a nexus 4 or use the internet. But that usually happens during the game, I'm sure at HT everyone is trying to do the same thing and it overloads the network. Try doing it at another time
As said above its the volume of users all trying find out whether Burnley are 1 down all at the same time. I've got 4G enabled phone but signal is patchy at the moment. I'm on O2 as well but don't pay any extra for the 4G ?
I Have an iPhone 4S 3G on O2 & it's **** anywhere around the Ellerslie. Occasionally get something around the toilets & back gate!
Don't usually have any problem in Z3 with 3G on Virginmobile, might just be certain service providers signals aren't strong enough where you are in the stadium...
Mate, thank you so much. I upgraded in Oct when the 4G was a fiver extra per month which I declined. Thanks to your comment I've discovered that it is now a free bolt on! Will set up tonight.
It'll probably work sporadically but they won't give you the full bandwidth/data usage of 4G unless you're paying extra for it. They'll give you the bare minimum if it's the freebie version in my experience.
