WOW ....... Mobile TV :-)

[Gixxer-TeZ]

Just had words with Orange and told them to stick their contract where the sun don't shine (most of the UK then as it happens).

So wandered down southend satuday with the kids and bought a new sony ericsson on a vodafone contract. I used to be with vodafone before but the days when singlepoint did it and they pushed me to a nervous breakdown and I vowed for years I would never use vodafone again.

But, I have a business contract that gives me a dedicated team of customer care agents that so far, have been spot on and no hanging around on hold when I ring them.......loads better.


The best thing is my FREE 6 MONTH TRIAL :grin2 of mobile TV.

Friggn hell............. late for work yesterday because I was engrossed watching BBC News 24 and the history channel.

:reading:laugh1

And the video calls are pretty good aswell.





PS - If anyone had my number and I havn't texted you the new one, PM me and I'll send it over..........or if you just want my number same as.

[Gixxer-TeZ]

And by the way ........ never knew this, but when you go into a vodafone store and get a new contract, they give you the option to choose your own number off a list on the pc screen .........how cool.


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[STEALTH52]

And by the way ........ never knew this, but when you go into a vodafone store and get a new contract, they give you the option to choose your own number off a list on the pc screen .........how cool.


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I've been able to pick a number on every contract i've had so far from 02, Orange, T-mobile & 3 over the past few years. Don't reckon they liked the look of you tez! :grin3

Think i'll stick with watching the tv at home though, Dont reckon a mobile's sound quality is quite as good somehow! :grin2

[Lateshift]

I am currently about to switch from Vodafone who i have been with for years (strangely from when it was Singlepoint and never had a problem whatsoever :D ).

My reason was due to the fact that Vodafone on most of the top phones, have stripped quite a bit of the functionality out of them, i mean where is the decency in removing the FM radio from a phone just so you have to sign up to a £1 a day internet contract to receive it :(

Not to mention that on a few of their phones even the basic things like 'themes' have been locked so you can't get rid of the Vodafone branding.

When all is said and done i can swap to O2, get a 19" Samsung LCD TV, a top of the range phone and a guaranteed £35 a month for 600 x-net anytime minutes and 500 texts a month.

Considering i am paying £28 at the moment for 150 minutes and 250 texts i am not going to complain, although i did manage to haggle Vodafone down to £10 a month for a new phone (Samsung U700) with the existing contract.


Nah, sod it, get the telly and Ebay it :D

[sniffer dagenham]

Sorry to break the bad news tto you all but, those ads you get on the mobile TV channels is all to do with my company. What a crock of crap, you just cant get away from advertising.

[Gixxer-TeZ]

When all is said and done i can swap to O2



You could do that or swap to T-Mobile or even Virgin (who piggy back on t-mobile) and when you can't make a cal due to lack of reception you'll be wishing you never swapped. We have o2 company phones and they are crap.

By the way shifty ..... Why do you want fm radio !!!!!!! You'd only listen to saga FM.

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[Lateshift]

Tez, if you were a comedian you would be skint by now ;) :D

If everyone in the office where i work can get a 100% signal on O2 and i get 1 bar, and up on the top of a Welsh mountain i get nothing when sat next to someone who is busy chatting away on O2 i think that speaks for itself ;)

Here is a little saga for you too, O2 live on the biggest trunk communications carrier network in the Uk believe it or not, the only one bigger is MMO2 which the blue light services use.

I stuck with Vodafone purely out of laziness but you will find that whilst they cover the vast majority of the UK (according to them) there is strangely enough vast areas of the UK that they dont cover, purely because the coverage would overlap into band 2 frequency areas where the Military get to decide who is allowed the frequency.

O2 reaching other places other phone providers cant reach ;) :D

[Perilous]

Not that its particularly releveant to road riders unles they start running BSB at Lydden :grin2 but 02 is the only one that works at all the race circuits. (although Orange does now work at Cadwell)

If you live in Little Totham (near Tiptree) you might as well throw an Vodafone mobile in the bin.

[Lateshift]

You see, most people dont understand that these companies have to buy their share of the frequency range and they are then left to decide if its a viable spending option to use their coverage on certain areas.

I could name at least 5 or 6 bases and training areas alone where Vodafone is useless, T Mobile marginally better and yet 3G and O2 worked perfectly.

The comedy was that a troop of Squaddies at the top of Pen-y-fan in Brecon struggled to get a HF radio working and resorted to using a mobile phone :D


God how i am going to miss communications after doing it for 20 odd years


NOT :D :D




Anyway the fact still remains O2 are giving me a 19" Samsung LCD TV and Vodafone are poo :D