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I got a marketing email claiming something big was coming.
Soon we'll be bringing you much more than mobile. We're talking tech that will transform your every day.
Transform my every day, eh? I wonder what that could be.
Marital aids. 4Gspot
To be fair, as an EE customer, a mobile signal that reached the back of the house would pretty much transform my every day
To be fair, as an EE customer, a mobile signal that reached the back of the house would pretty much transform my every day
Yep - our company went to EE, no signal at the office or at home...or anywhere else really
I had to move from Vodafone as I had to stand outside to use my phone, moved to EE, got the same email, it will be something around fibre internet
EE support WiFi calling by the way, as long as your handset does, so in your house you can do calls as normal even without a mobile signal. Or indeed anywhere else with WiFi.
Yep, some signal would be a massive improvement! My work phone is EE and I can't remember the last time I actually had signal to use it.
That one required a new phone, this was a few years ago now, but voda still have a little gap just where I live..
My signal is always pretty good and always has been!
I suspect certain work contracts confer fewer slots on cell towers, because my work SIM (in my personal phone) is Vodafone, and I regularly switch from EE to see if there is better signal and there never is.
D-I-L works for them, says its white goods, fridge-freezers etc.
I can't get past the bloke on the adverts, the adverts make me cringe.
A good concept making adverts that puts punters off.
Nah, I'm on Vodafone and it's utter crap.
D-I-L works for them, says its white goods, fridge-freezers etc.
that's going to improve service, we are going to end up with a handful of companies that sell everything rather than specialising
D-I-L works for them, says its white goods, fridge-freezers etc.
Oh. I already have a fridge freezer etc. Not sure how that would transform my life. A smart oven would be handy, we looked at them. but they are stupidly expensive compared to dumb ones.
EE support WiFi calling by the way, as long as your handset does, so in your house you can do calls as normal even without a mobile signal. Or indeed anywhere else with WiFi.
Yeah, I know, I was being slightly facetious. Plus, a combination of crappy mobile signal, crappy broadband and foot thick stone walls makes for some esoteric connectivity issues ChezIHN.
I have had no issues with EE signal. Been with them for over 10yrs moved me onto cheaper tariff and got a loyalty discount for having 2 phones on account. I see no reason to move.
I'm on PlusNet and got the EE email too (EE own PlusNet) as PlusNet are pulling out of the mobile market. Strange how everyone seems to be moaning about EE's signal coverage as I've always found it to be the best. I'm never going near Vodafone after they turned up in my college with killer deals for everyone only for us all to discover there was no signal for most of South Wales and they refused to cancel all of our contracts! Half a college paying £25 a month for 2 years for phones the cannot use as the were locked to Vodafone created a hell of a lot of bad feeling.
Which reminds me that I need to switch to EE )or a carrier that uses their network) as PlusNet are turning off my SIM in November.
Yep, some signal would be a massive improvement! My work phone is EE and I can’t remember the last time I actually had signal to use it.
Surprised by this - where in the world are you.
I went from Vodafone to EE last year after pretty much every mountain guide freelancer I know were with EE. Certainly in remoter parts of Scotland I'm not sure it can been beat. Three on the other hand, and pretty much to the same extent O2, are practically worthless.
Transform my every day, eh? I wonder what that could be.
Probably a flakey 4g/5g broadband 'router' to 'replace' your Fibre or ASDL.
Just in the process of moving Vodafone to EE as the signal checker says new house will not be in Vodafone coverage. Annoyed as the new deal seems more pricey than my old one. Now trying the advanced algebra that is deciding if broadband and TV should be BT based or Sky based - there are a lot of permutations and I'm scratching my head as to who is likely to rip me off least.
I hope this is roll out of their "Fiber with 4g/5g backup" routers to normal price bands, it means the EE/BT merger would start delivering benefits for (normal) customers at last.
Three on the other hand, and pretty much to the same extent O2, are practically worthless.
Which is perplexing, as I bet if you find an EE mast its joint EE / Hutchinson 3G (Three). For some reason they co-build all these masts but never install the Three antenna.
EE are the only mobile provider that works at all in my house and its still flaky! Work phone was Vodafone but no signal at all despite me being able to see the mast on top of our work silo from my house?
I don't care now as I no longer work but all this talk of people using their phones as a mobile WiFi hotspot! 8 miles from Liverpool and 10 miles from Chester, for reference.
Which is perplexing, as I bet if you find an EE mast its joint EE / Hutchinson 3G (Three). For some reason they co-build all these masts but never install the Three antenna.
It's not just about getting radio signal. You are allocated a frequency within the band on 4 or 5G, and when you are on that frequency you get time slices of it, they're known as slots IIRC. You get more or fewer slots depending on things like how busy that cell is, what your phone can support but also what service deal you are on. So even if Three are using the same towers, they may be allocated fewer slots to distribute amongst their customers.
This is my problem with work too I think - frequently I get several bars but bugger all network speed - I suspect this is partly because my work organisation isn't allocated enough slots and also that we're not allocated enough internet once we've connected to the cell tower.
EE are becoming BT's main broadband brand, that'll confuse the telephone scammers for a while who are still saying they are from British Telecom. Other news is a 1.6Gb FTTP package.
I wonder how the usual big broadband provider standard shonky router will handle that throughput, plus a lot of FTTP ONT's out there only have a Gig Ethernet port on them, so will need a physical swap out for one with a mGig port on it.
EE are going to sell kettles
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/oct/18/ee-sell-smart-tvs-fridges-kettles-mobile-bt
Which reminds me that I need to switch to EE )or a carrier that uses their network) as PlusNet are turning off my SIM in November.<br /><br />
I’ve got to do the same for the internet in the van, had a quick look at the “special offers” they want me to switch over to and they don’t appear to include roaming.
So I’ll have to search for something else to move to.
EE support WiFi calling by the way, as long as your handset does
As do O2, I get O2WiFCall notifications on my phone, in fact I’ve just picked it up and had that at the top of the screen.
My first mobile phone was a Sony ‘Mars Bar’, on Vodaphone, which were utterly crap around North Wiltshire what, thirty-odd years ago? Went over to Orange as soon as possible and then over to O2 because Orange didn’t have the Sony flip-phone I wanted. For two sodding years I kept getting calls from Orange dealers trying to persuade me to upgrade my phone, because I’d ported my number over, as it was a really memorable number. Now it looks like I’m going to be back with Orange/EE for my Broadband, ‘cos I’m with BT. *sigh*. Before anyone suggests changing, I just can’t be arsed, for the amount I’d save over time, because I have Sky+ and never bother streaming anything at all. I won’t gain anything from a full-fibre connection, my computer barely ever gets used.
Vodafone used to be brilliant for remote location signal, but nowadays, I have a few patches where signal isn't present but EE seems to have signal.
BT have been nudging their customers over to EE for a while. I was on an old BT SIM only contract that was ok but had limited data . So I rang EE and got more data than I can use (although my eldest hoovers up anything left), with TNT sports thrown in (for Discovery+), uncapped speeds and 5G for the same price as I was paying before. For me at least, it was worth moving, and worth phoning to haggle.
Would be nice if EE had some actually competitive pricing. Am I **** paying 3x as much for less date (£8 a month for 30 odd gb vs £23pm for 25gb) even if Talkmobile coverage isn't as great.
Evil Everywhere™
EE have worked very well for us. For super fast fibre we get 500 odd Mbps which translates to faultless service no matter what we are doing. Always get good deals on phones and we only get EE service in lots of places around here. Work phones on different networks are largely pointless. Brill company from our perspective, the futures bright and all that 🙂
£8 a month for 30 odd gb vs £23pm for 25gb
I'm paying £23 for 110Gb, but importantly, we're paying £66 for a family of four with 270Gb to share between us. I don't think that's bad value. I've seen cheaper deals, but if the signal's shite I'm not interested.