best phone coverage

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Although this may be in the wrong part of the forum having a good phone connection is pretty important if you are wild camping, or even on a caravan site. When I started out I was with orange but quickly realised I would need more than one provider to get a chance of a connection. I currently have a Tesco mobile sim, the original orange contract (now expired so i am free if I want to move) and a mi-fi running on EE All can be unreliable and I often have no signal on any of them.

What does anyone use and which is most likely to give regular connections My brother says o2 but they don't look all that good on the rankings. Does 99percent coverage just count population so all big cities are covered but nice camping spots not

When I look at this
Best Mobile Coverage - Compare 3G, 2G, Mobile Broadband - Which Mobile Phone Network Has The Best Signal Coverage?
It would appear EE is far an away the best, but there have been many times and places it has let me down
 
well do what I have done I used to carry two phones on different networks ,o2 and Vodafone,Then went out the other day and bought myself a moto g 2014 ,second edition phone as it has two sim slots so now have both on one phone so if I cant get signal on one network then I have the other to fallback on .When we where at hawes last year igot a signal wher no one else did and that was on second phone butnow have both in one phone,running android and it is due to be upgraded to latest version of android {LOLLIPOP}as soon as motorola get it sorted
 
Hopefully, in the news today, that mobile operators will have to 'share' allow home country roaming at no extra charge will solve this problem.

That's one advantage of being overseas and roaming, you can connect to the network that is available..

I have unlimited O2 but not sure it's any better than the others, often there is no decent 3g signal away from towns, and yes 99% coverage refers to 'of the population' not ground area, marketing ;)
 
I used to be with Vodafone which used to be excellent but that went downhill a few years back.

Just over a year back i went over to Tesco Mobile who use the O2 network, the Sim Only package was good but the coverage was rubbish.

I`ve now gone over to 3 and up to now it`s by far the best i`ve used.

What convinced me to change was using a Mi-Fi unit for the internet which over here and in France is outstanding.

The wife has always been with Orange / T-Mobile which is now EE and that`s always been pretty good and reliable.
 
Tesco use 02, so that won't be any different.

EE/orange/T-mobile are just generally crap. Even when you do have a good signal, there's no guarantee of actually making a call or downloading something. The network is massively over-subscribed and it can't cope.

She has Vodafone, and I have Three. Wherever we've been at least one of us has had a signal. Three is very good for internet - and that's 3G, not 4G I'm talking about. Consistently faster that Vodafone.
 
All on 3 here. Pretty good coverage and the 3g/4g is excellant for tethering a device.
 
Another thumbs up for 3 here. I pay £15 PAYG for 300 minutes, 3000 text and unlimited data. I have used my laptop tethered to my phone for my business and never had any warnings for excessive useage. I also have BT Wifi from my home broadband which can be quite useful in built up areas,
 
Theres a post on the off topic about 3 capping tethering data in the future
 
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