T-Mobile / Orange switching

[Mad Max]

The signal is crap! even with the addition of Orange, Virgin mobile signal for me is total rubbish, i'll be switching to o2 as soon as the new iphone is available.

[Vieil Homme]

Originally Posted by Mad Max

The signal is crap! even with the addition of Orange, Virgin mobile signal for me is total rubbish, i'll be switching to o2 as soon as the new iphone is available.

Don't know your location but if you were on Campus at Kent Uni you would find the complete opposite O2 is total rubbish as you put it. I'm on T-Mobile / Orange and it works for me in my area and Kent Uni, Im on a sim only deal @ £10.50 per month that gives me 300 min to any mobile 300 text and 1Gb of data which includes tethering plus the free bolt-on of unlimited Landline calls which is a good deal. Regarding the switching when on Orange 3G its not as fast as the T-mobile network. I'm always looking for the beter deal but there is always a spanner in the works ie on the 3 network the Natwest App does not work, they may of fixed it now....

[Vieil Homme]

Orange and T-mobile has been given the go-ahead to launch superfast 4G mobile access. Will this mean Virgin mobile will get it aswell? Can't wait just need a G4 Mobile

[Gadgie]

Before T mobile joined up with Orange, my mobile phone signal wasn't all that good?

For example, I could never get good a signal in my local neighbourhood, but since the team up, its full strength

[spankysmagicpian]

Originally Posted by chrispy2000

I wish mine switched seamlessly.
I use a iPhone 4 and when it's on Orange I can't send any text. A real pain.

Sorry to bump this old thread. Does anyone know if this has been fixed or anyone else has had the same problem?

Mine has been doing it the last few weeks - texts go fine on Virgin, fail when on Orange.

Surely it would always say Virgin now as T-Mobile & Orange have fully merged so Virgin is just like every other MVNO.

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by Jameseh

Surely it would always say Virgin now as T-Mobile & Orange have fully merged so Virgin is just like every other MVNO.

They haven't full merged though, the mast networks are still technically separate as far as I know.

All that's changed is EE now have put 'EE' across the network for their own customers so no-one sees any difference.

Virgin customers still see the big / little 'v'

[qasdfdsaq]

Each network still broadcasts its own network code - 234-30 for T-Mobile and 234-33 for Orange. Indeed, the new 4G EE network uses T-Mobile's 234-30 code.

Phones come shipped with a lookup table that maps these codes to network names. The phone can also read this data from the SIM card, thus overriding (but not updating) it's internal data. EE have updated their SIM cards to map both 234-30 and 234-33 to the name "EE", Virgin Mobile have been mapping 234-30 to "Virgin" for a decade, and may now include 234-33 as well, though whether existing customers see that depend on whether their SIM cards are remotely reprogrammable.