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From: Steve Terry on 5 May 2008 10:03 "R. Mark Clayton" <nospamclayton(a)btinternet.com> wrote in message news:roadncGrJd1DR4PVnZ2dnUVZ8sylnZ2d(a)bt.com... > "Victor Delta" <none(a)nospam.com> wrote in message > news:fvip9m$q39$1(a)registered.motzarella.org... >> "Victor Delta" <none(a)nospam.com> wrote in message >> news:fvd8cu$8mg$1(a)registered.motzarella.org... <snip> > Don't forget that you will need a dual / tri-band phone to get the full > benefit as O2 and Voda are dual band in the UK, whereas Orange and T are > not. So any phone made for the European market in the last 8 years then? Steve Terry
From: Mark Carver on 5 May 2008 11:09 Roger Mills wrote: > It may not come to anything but, interestingly, BBC Parliament was showing > something relevant last night. A Conservative MP is trying to use the > 10-minute Bill procedure to initate legislation which would encourage (but > not compel) mobile phone companies to set up inter-operability arrangements > to address just this issue. The analogy was drawn of cashpoint machines - > where you can use Bank A's machine to draw money out of your account with > Bank B. > > Similarly - it was suggested - if you have a mobile phone with Operator X, > you should be able to access the network via Operator Y's mast if X doesn't > have one in a suitable place. It was suggested that this would actually save > money for the operators - who could pay for bandwidth on rival networks > rather than extending their own infrastructure. > > Could be a while before anything happens, though. <g> It's a very good idea though. I'm old enough to remember when AA and RAC roadside phone boxes had the same access key, and you could call either organisation for either's box. -- Mark Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply.
From: Steve Terry on 5 May 2008 11:15 "Roger Mills" <watt.tyler(a)googlemail.com> wrote in message news:688e73F2r8jeaU1(a)mid.individual.net... > In an earlier contribution to this discussion, > Victor Delta <none(a)nospam.com> wrote: > >> I live in Dorset and mobile reception in some parts of the county is >> pretty ropey to say the least. In any location, however, some >> networks are better than others - but overall no single network is >> perfect. >> My question is therefore is it possible to get a SIM card or whatever >> in the UK which enables one to 'roam' i.e. automatically switch >> between the networks and take the strongest signal. This is what >> appears to happen when one is abroad. >> Any suggestions please - especially if they don't cost the earth?! >> TIA >> V > > It may not come to anything but, interestingly, BBC Parliament was showing > something relevant last night. A Conservative MP is trying to use the > 10-minute Bill procedure to initate legislation which would encourage (but > not compel) mobile phone companies to set up inter-operability > arrangements to address just this issue. The analogy was drawn of > cashpoint machines - where you can use Bank A's machine to draw money out > of your account with Bank B. > > Similarly - it was suggested - if you have a mobile phone with Operator X, > you should be able to access the network via Operator Y's mast if X > doesn't have one in a suitable place. It was suggested that this would > actually save money for the operators - who could pay for bandwidth on > rival networks rather than extending their own infrastructure. > The Swiss have had this kind of internal roaming for years They saw it as a civil defence need Steve Terry
From: Sam Nelson on 5 May 2008 11:36 In article <688e73F2r8jeaU1(a)mid.individual.net>, "Roger Mills" <watt.tyler(a)googlemail.com> writes: > Similarly - it was suggested - if you have a mobile phone with Operator X, > you should be able to access the network via Operator Y's mast if X doesn't > have one in a suitable place. It was suggested that this would actually save > money for the operators - who could pay for bandwidth on rival networks > rather than extending their own infrastructure. You would've thought that it was in their interests from the off to at least share masts, but apparently not. That's why there are three on the hill opposite my house. The whole business is screwed up. They can't, between them, offer useful contracts, get the coverage right, do decent customer service, run shops, anything. Then there's the whole `phone locked to network' thing. That mobile phones are popular in the UK is in spite of these largely-useless companies, not because of them. -- SAm.
From: Dirk Bieber on 6 May 2008 22:29
"R. Mark Clayton" wrote: > >> Don't forget that you will need a dual / tri-band phone to get the full > >> benefit as O2 and Voda are dual band in the UK, whereas Orange and T are > >> not. > > So any phone made for the European market in the last 8 years then? > > Not as long as that I suspect. Longer, I got my Siemens S25 in 1999, and as I remember *almost* all phones thereafter were dualbands (in Germany ;-) ). Greets Dirk |