3UK better when you force it to 3G
I met with Jonathan Jensen the other day to talk mobile and he was telling me that in his area, he’s getting a phenomenally better signal from 3UK when he forces his handset to only use 3G coverage. Here’s his blog post on the subject:
Since setting my Nokia 3G handset on 3 to only use 3G coverage & not GSM I’ve had much better service. The handset used to spend its time switching between 3G & GSM when coverage was flaky. This seemed to be far from seamless. The result was that I regularly used to lose signal where the coverage was a bit flaky. 3 has disabled the ability to set the handset to GSM only (because they pay roaming fees to Orange, their GSM partner) but 3G only works fine for me.
Has anyone else found this?
Actually, that sounds about right - I’ve noticed the jump between 3G and 2G really isn’t very slick at all on my E61. Given I’m normally in areas with good 3 coverage I’m going to give this a try.
Ben Smith’s last blog post..My other phone(s) shame?
Posted by Ben Smith on March 13th, 2008 at 11:26 am.I noticed that it’s impossible to keep a socket open on their PAYG service (not tried Contract). This could be because their GPRS is flipflopping around between their’s and Oranges. Will now try 3G only.
S.
Posted by Simon Tennant on March 13th, 2008 at 3:25 pm.