Posts by davethedormouse

When in roam...

From what I've been told, in the initial stages your handset won't see Orange towers as T-Mob ones or T-Mob ones as Orange and automatically choose the best signal. That's a few months away yet.

What the "roaming" agreement means is come 5th October if you're on T-Mob in an area with poor coverage you'll be able to do a manual network search and choose Orange instead (and vice-versa). Clunky, but better than nothing.

This will eventually apply to Virgin Mobile customers too, but probably not as early at 5th October.