| > Slightly off topic, but I was with Three UK for a while. Reception was universally terrible, and trying to use mobile data was a joke. I know someone who for a while was manager for a team of on-call engineers for a large-ish UK company. As part of their precautions, they had contracts with all the big operators which they basically split into three groups Vodafone, Three, O2/EE. The Vodafone contract was of course always the highest in cost, such is life with Vodafone. But nobody ever had a problem getting in touch with engineers on Vodafone SIMs, and the engineers didn't have much to bitch about either.... they could seemingly get signal and data everywhere, even basements. O2/EE were sort of the Goldilocks option... not too good, not too bad. Data was generally better than Vodafone (O2/EE were generally quicker off the mark deploying 4G/5G whilst for a few years Vodafone customers suffered 3G in non-urban areas). Meanwhile with Three, everything sucked. Sure they were the cheapest, but very much "get what you pay for". The Customer Service was terrible. But the main problem for my friend was the coverage. We're talking about prime Central London areas here (W,WC,EC postcodes) and the engineers on Three would regularly have either no signal or one/two bars. Infact in one office in particular, the IT room which overlooked a busy street was a Three blackspot, no signal whatsoever (meanwhile colleagues on Vodafone or O2/EE had no problems at all). Eventually they got fedup, dropped Three and went for a two-carrier model. Three was not exactly bringing much to the table ! I should state this was around 5–10 years ago. So things might have changed. I suspect they have not changed substantially though. |