Orange -VERY VERY BAD RECEPTION (FORUM: Battle of the Networks)

Member Name: leoo

Product:	FORUM: Battle of the Networks
Date:	20/03/03 (387 review reads)
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Advantages: none

Disadvantages: No reception, non existent network, poor support

Cannot make calls or recieve call NO ACCESS Whats happening!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Been with T-MOBILE for almost 4 years[excellent service overall especially reception and coverage] each year upgrading to a new mobile ericission mobile phone.In november decided to upgrade again as my 12 month contract had expired but T-MOBILE did not have a good phone range. And were not able to provide me with the ericission T-68i for a good price. Thus signed up a one year contract with orange via mobile.com who gave me the T68i for free with a lot of acccesories.At the time I had the option to go with vodafone who were doing a similar deal but donot why I did not.
The reception and coverage for the orange network is crapp. That too in a place like warwick .where the coverage is supposed to be 100%. not only this area but in general the reception quality and coverage is very poor. Resulting if frequent missed calls, disconnection, no network being detected.
It definately is not the phone it is unlocked and using it with other networks[ t-mobile and vodafone] I have had no such problems . Plus there are areas where orange has no signal at all and I cannot make any calls but with T-mobile and Vodafone I have had no such problem with the same phone just a question of interchanging sim cards which i usually borrow off my friends phone who are connected mostly to vodafone .
EAGERLY WAITING FOR MY CURRENT CONTRACT TO END SO I CAN GET BACK ON TO T-MOBILE.
WILL ORANGE DO SOMETHING IT ........................................

The above was my original review thanks for the feed back but the below review is written on 16/3/03 .......................
For the past four days i cannot make calls at all on the orange network. i have tried the orange sim card in other phones but it does not work . I use it in the west midlands which is supposed to have good coverage . My mobile phone just says no access or when the orange log does come up it just does not connect wh
en I dial any number two beeps are heard and the connection is lost not even a ring
tone is heard.I must say again i have use d the orange sim in other mobiles .Its works on none on them.
Do I have a faulty sim card ? Or is the network to blame? Cannot blame the phone as used it in three different mobiles phones on which it does not work .while other network sims work perfectly.
Never had such trouble with a network.
Cannot understand this one .....................................the saga continues ..................................will keep you posted as to what happens ...............the helpline have been ok but could have done much better. But if any of you have any ideas why my orange sim card refuses to work on any mobile I would be most grateful.
Thank you for reading.

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