South Leeds - Mobile phone reception - who are you with?

[dave_s13]

I've been with T-mobile for ages and have up to now put up with the patchy reception I get in the LS26 area. But I've had enough of having to go out into the garden to use the phone or stand in the corner of the dining room. I've also noted T-mobile just doesn't work in any of the Chapel Allerton bars and is generally patchy all over the place.

Can anyone recommend a provider that has decent reception almost everywhere?

Another example. Me and a mate went up to dalby forest moutain biking. Me, zero bars. Him, full signal. After I had come off and cracked my head on a tree it was good to know he could get a signal. He's on Vodaphone I think. Maybe I just answered my own question?

[Eviltad]

Missus is on 02. I'm with Orange. She seems to get marginally better signal, everywhere, than I do. She is on an Iphone 3G and I'm on a HTC Hero in LS27.

[snotrag]

I'm on O2, get decent reception (3g too) almost everywhere in Leeds, and I'vw worked in both Chapel Allerton and South Leeds.

RE Dalby - its in a big hole, so dont be surprised. If you take the trail map with you its noted on a couple of high spots where you can get phone signal.

[964Jim]

I'm in LS26 and never have a problem with Vodafone.

[dave_s13]

cheers chaps.

Think i might get one of those 15 per month 30 day sims from o2 and see how it goes. Only other issue is i have no idea if 500mb per moth will be enough, difficult to tell really.

[gib786]

I used to have signal problems all over the place when I was with Orange. I could be sat with one phone on o2 with full signal and then the orange handset with 0 bars. I was on o2 before moving to orange and never had any issues. After leaving orange I went with vodafone and they are just as good as o2 for signal. Never tried T-Mobile myself. Can't say I have had any issues with in Chapel A with vodafone

[simonej]

I've been with T-Mobile as long as I can remember and never had signal problems anywhere. Until now. For some reason it's become really poor and half what it used to be.

Still, a friend of mine has Orange and hardly a phonecall goes by without him cutting off/breaking up/both. My girlfriend's on Vodafone and seems to do much better.

[Petrolhead_Rich]

dave_s13 said:

Me, zero bars. Him, full signal. After I had come off and cracked my head on a tree it was good to know he could get a signal.

FYI, if you dial a known emergency number (in europe 999 or 112) then the phone will use any network, regardless of sim so even with no signal on your network you can usually still make emergency calls...

[tfeb]

dave_s13 said:

cheers chaps.

Think i might get one of those 15 per month 30 day sims from o2 and see how it goes. Only other issue is i have no idea if 500mb per moth will be enough, difficult to tell really.

That should be plenty!

The big thing to not go mad on is watching loads of youtube clips. 95% of my data is used when im at home or work and both have wifi so never touch the 500mb. Remember watching a 30 second clip you youtube is the equivilant of sending 500,000 text messages. lol

500mb is plenty for most ppl out there