My friends -- fed up with my tedious rantings about my hatred of my 3 (UK) mobile phone (a N95) -- convinced me to buy out my contract and move to O2. I've just started a 24-month contract with O2 using a blackberry bold.
For a year, I've not given out my mobile number because it probably won't work. Now, I have a service that makes calls when I dial numbers, rings when people call me, and what matters to me most, has the internet (that works).
So... I've been trying to work out why 3 is so shit, and I've got it. 3 does not have any GPRS failover. It's 3G (when you're lucky) or GSM. O2 has GPRS, so when out of 3G coverage, your internet session remains. And your phone call is not dropped when that happens.
Conclusion: 3's platform can never be any good. It's flawed by design, unless they get data roaming with continuous sessions. It's not their fault, it's just terrible.
(BTW: I get more minutes and texts with O2, and the price is the same).
My friends will now be relieved of my incessant hate rants about three. I now feel the need to evangalise to all 3 prospects about why it's so 3rd rate, out of my sense of public service. Perhaps my friends will hear my go on about it still.
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Fun to look at this after 15 years. How wrong I was. 3 was crap then, but the lack of GPRS fallover is irrelevant when 3G is the fallover and has become ubiquitous.
Will be interesting to see what happens when 3G gets phased out, though.
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