For the last 6 months (around the time t-mobile/orange change) the VM reception where I live has been poor. Mostly at 2 bars, very occasionally 3 or 4 but only for brief moments. Often drops to none so I miss calls and just get a voice message alert. Also drops to 3G from HDPSA often.
Before I could change between t-mobile and orange manually although this often took me form 2 bars down to 1 bar. Tried doing the last few days and notice there is no Orange option to manually select. To rule this out as being a problem with my older phone I had some friends test their signal here on newer phones and they got the same reception and lack of network choice.
So the first question is why is the reception so bad now? Is there anything I can do to fix this without having to shell out of my own pocket?
My VM contract runs out in a months time and I intend to get a new phone and make more use of it so reception is more of an issue now.
Any help or advice appreciated
