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Originally Posted by Stuart
I'm with O2. TBH, the primary reason I stayed with O2 was that they offered free WiFi access via The Cloud and BT Openzone. Sadly, despite following O2's advice repeatedly, I cannot get OpenZone working. Apparently the problem is that my phone number is still registered to my previous phone. Perhaps that explains why my previous phone also cannot access BT Openzone (I sold it, but still have contact with the buyer).
There coverage is actually quite good both at home and work. There are major deadzones on my journey between home and work, but these affect all radio transmissions (even FM), and while O2 is affected, they aren't affected nearly as much as T Mobile are.
Coverage isn't perfect at work ,but I work in a 200 year old building with 4 foot thick walls. No mobile phone network offers 100% coverage inside our building. Even the access points for the WiFi network we offer have barely a 20 metre range.
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I had the same problem when I had free WiFi access (something Three don't offer, and only a fad at Lakeside where I again couldn't get a signal on a Saturday afternoon - nothing like emailing your missus, hoping she too has her WiFi access set-up!
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Anyway, I went through many iPhones on O2 (failure under warranty and two breakages) and I seem to recall having to text a shortcode - something like 8282 - and waiting for a reply text, and then waiting for it to realise my login as it was based automatically on phone number. Or maybe that was The Cloud? Either way, and I think it was Openzone, I'm surprised you don't get that sort of information when you try and login with your phone number.
Either way, I never used BT Openzone... usefully, BT have set-up all their BT FON routers on BT Total Broadband to also have the SSID BT Openzone, and that's not included in the O2 offer. Anytime you get connected to one, that's the end of your internet access unless you want to pay BT for access to some poor sod's internet connection!
Where do you travel through in South East London to lose FM signals - presumably from Crystal Palace and Croydon? I'm a broadcast engineer by trade so quite interested as a South East Lahdaner.
Either way, you should at least get 2G with O2 with their 900MHz allocations - that should get into all but the thickest tunnels on the Southeastern Greenwich line!
