Vodafone sends Manchester back to the 90s Vodafone customers in Greater Manchester are having to rely on 2G services as a hardware fault has brought down the whole area's 3G coverage. Users of the 3G network are reporting dropped calls and incoming connections being routed direct to voice mail, though switching the handset to use 2G, GSM, seems to fix the problem. …
Whole 3G network for the past two days huh? Odd how I was in Sheffield visiting some field workers and all had perfectly fine 3G connections - in fact as the direct tech support for our six field operation departmens operating from Glasgow down to Croyden not one has been on contact to mention loss of 3G connection - and trust me they would be in touch!
Was even talking to one this morning who mentioed everything's going fine.
T-Mobile's 3G problems are quite common lately, at least in London area - and I'm a little bit surprised that TheReg never mentions it. For example, yesterday and before yesterday 3G data was virtually unusable, while voice calls were ok. If I wanted to acces Gmail in my mobile's browser, or any other mobile site - phone actually DID set up data session, but page was never loaded. Friend of mine, with different handset on T-Mobile had the same issues. It all came back to normal yesterday afternoon, but it also proves T-Mobile has serious (but still quiet) issues with their 3G sometimes...
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Have just been on the blower to them to return a duff 3g PCMCIA card and asked them about Manchester and apparently it's all back on - which is handy as we're working out there tomorrow.
We use 3G/GPRS for interviewing people over the web so a drop of the 3G signal to GPRS will be /very/ noticable due to the pages taking several minutes to load as opposed to the minute they do now - roll on a proper HSPDA rollout!
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