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Main | The O2 chief is NOT on the BBC Radio 4 Today Program on Friday »
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DateWednesday, January 13, 2010 at 11:56AM

This really sums it up. We've had this since last June.

AuthorBill Buchan | Comments Off |

Reader Comments (2)

Hi Bill,

I hope you don't mind me contacting you via a comment, but I couldn't find a contact form/email address on the site! I thought I'd comment on this post, as I've had my fair share of problems with o2 myself since I switched mobile phone networks in October! I stumbled across your blog by chance really but after having a browse through i enjoyed reading a lot of your posts.

I just had a quick query. I'm involved in the running of a mobile broadband (MBB) consumer advice website called Mobile Broadband Genie (http://mobile.broadbandgenie.co.uk). We're looking to partner with good quality technology-oriented blogs such as your own to provide information to people on MBB.

I wondered if you might be interested in us writing some content for your website, perhaps in the form of a short guide to the ins and outs of MBB, as a guest post? Failing that it would be really useful to us if you could take a few minutes to have a look around our site and give us a short revie if you think the site might be helpful to your visitors.

Either way it would great to hear your feedback,

Look forward to hearing back from you,

Kind regards,

Joe Linford

January 21, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterJoe Linford

I've had major problems with o2 since getting my iPhone at start of Jan 2010. My phone went back as there is no 3G coverage at my office or home despite the O2 maps showing that there is. It does appear that the iPhone has much worse signal than other phones so it exacerbates the problems with the O2 network.

The strange thing is that at certain times of the day the iPhone can get reasonable 3G signal at home or work but this is completely inconsistent and at other times it will only pick up 2G.

I love the iPhone so I'll be moving to Vodafone once my PAC code comes through. My experiences with iPhone and O2 are here http://photo3-tech.blogspot.com/

January 22, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterAndy James
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