john

After holding out for a year I’ve finally dumped vodafone and ported my number into bit10’s orange company phone scheme.

At home my Vodafone coverage was reasonable (although occasionally patchy), but it appears that I only get Orange reception when hanging out of a bedroom window clinging on upside-down with my toenails; not an ideal state of affairs.

Now I wouldn’t mind this if I lived in the middle of nowhere, but I’m in a big village on the edge of the Solihull/Birmingham connurbation. There’s over 2500 houses with a population of around 7,000.

Even more surprising is the coverage map on Orange’s website, which from afar seems like most of the UK is indeed orange, but up close is a lot patchier. At street level the map says that I should have perfect coverage, but by deduction I think my house must be in the 100m square “hole” in the local coverage (pictured)

 

So come on Orange; please put a new aerial in one of my neighbours’ gardens (as long as I can’t see it - NIMBY!) because I’d love to be bright orange instead of living in the hole! In the meantime I remain incommunicado at home apart from BT, email, smoke signals and carrier pigeon, all of which are slighly more reliable than good old Orange.

 

 

 

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