3 2G service now on Orange??

Chatting to a manager in a phone shop today and she told me that she had
just come back from 3 training and that they had been told that 3's 2G
service was no longer provided by O2...but Orange!!

"Surely not" I said..but she was adamant that it had changed some weeks
ago.

Anyone confirm this..or is she talking rubbish??
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On 2006-10-27 19:03:03 +0100, JC <johncalias-newsgroupsATyahooD0TcoD0Tuk> said:

> Chatting to a manager in a phone shop today and she told me that she had
> just come back from 3 training and that they had been told that 3's 2G
> service was no longer provided by O2...but Orange!!
>
> "Surely not" I said..but she was adamant that it had changed some weeks
> ago.
>
> Anyone confirm this..or is she talking rubbish??

It's not rubbish, it was reported in the news many, many months ago.

Changeover was due to commence in Q1 2007, I thought.

Chris

JC wrote:
> Chatting to a manager in a phone shop today and she told me that she had
> just come back from 3 training and that they had been told that 3's 2G
> service was no longer provided by O2...but Orange!!
>
> "Surely not" I said..but she was adamant that it had changed some weeks
> ago.
>
> Anyone confirm this..or is she talking rubbish??

Yep can confirm this.

Hutchison used to own Orange though didn't they?

JC wrote:
> Chatting to a manager in a phone shop today and she told me that she had
> just come back from 3 training and that they had been told that 3's 2G
> service was no longer provided by O2...but Orange!!
>
> "Surely not" I said..but she was adamant that it had changed some weeks
> ago.
>
> Anyone confirm this..or is she talking rubbish??

The changeover was reported here many months ago.

Richard Oliver wrote:
> JC wrote:
>> Chatting to a manager in a phone shop today and she told me that she had
>> just come back from 3 training and that they had been told that 3's 2G
>> service was no longer provided by O2...but Orange!!
>>
>> "Surely not" I said..but she was adamant that it had changed some weeks
>> ago.
>>
>> Anyone confirm this..or is she talking rubbish??
>
> The changeover was reported here many months ago.

See:- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/10/orange_o2/

Charlie Mitchell wrote:
> JC wrote:
> > Chatting to a manager in a phone shop today and she told me that she had
> > just come back from 3 training and that they had been told that 3's 2G
> > service was no longer provided by O2...but Orange!!
> >
> > "Surely not" I said..but she was adamant that it had changed some weeks
> > ago.
> >
> > Anyone confirm this..or is she talking rubbish??
>
> Yep can confirm this.
>
> Hutchison used to own Orange though didn't they?

By coincidence I spoke to three dealer support regrding this today,
they would only say it is due to start early 2007

JC <johncalias-newsgroupsATyahooD0TcoD0Tuk> declared for all the world
to hear...
> Chatting to a manager in a phone shop today and she told me that she had
> just come back from 3 training and that they had been told that 3's 2G
> service was no longer provided by O2...but Orange!!
>
> "Surely not" I said..but she was adamant that it had changed some weeks
> ago.
>
> Anyone confirm this..or is she talking rubbish??

It is true.
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Jon

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:03:03 +0100, JC
<johncalias-newsgroupsATyahooD0TcoD0Tuk> wrote:

>"Surely not" I said..but she was adamant that it had changed some weeks
>ago.
>
>Anyone confirm this..or is she talking rubbish?

It was announced months ago, but I was under the impression that it
wasn't going to happen till the new year.

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"Jon" <spam@jonparker.plus.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1fad4088c190f1ea98a499@text.usenet.plus.n et...
> JC <johncalias-newsgroupsATyahooD0TcoD0Tuk> declared for all the world
> to hear...
>> Chatting to a manager in a phone shop today and she told me that she had
>> just come back from 3 training and that they had been told that 3's 2G
>> service was no longer provided by O2...but Orange!!
>>
>> "Surely not" I said..but she was adamant that it had changed some weeks
>> ago.
>>
>> Anyone confirm this..or is she talking rubbish??
>
> It is true.
> --
> Regards
> Jon

That can only be a good thing. When I was Orange 3G (back in the days when
they were more accomodating to loyal customers!), the swicthover to 2G in
poor 3G areas was faultless, never had a single dropped call. Now with
T-Mobile, and handover is just as reliable.

You never know, 3 may now have reliable switchover - I'll watch and wait.

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