3 Network in Northern Ireland

#1 (**permalink**) 10-08-2007, 11:27 AM

I have been looking at a few 3 offers of late, with a view to moving to
them from O2. Their website shows good network coverage here in NI but
whenever I scan for networks using my existing phone I never see them
mentioned. Should I see them listed separately or do they use another
provider's network?

TIA

#2 (**permalink**) 10-08-2007, 12:27 PM

MikeT wrote:
> I have been looking at a few 3 offers of late, with a view to moving to
> them from O2. Their website shows good network coverage here in NI but
> whenever I scan for networks using my existing phone I never see them
> mentioned. Should I see them listed separately or do they use another
> provider's network?
>
To find them your handset needs to support WCDMA, They also use Orange
(and presumably temporarily O2) as roaming partners.

#3 (**permalink**) 10-09-2007, 07:10 AM

"MikeT" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:1qxdwdr1dvmi4.dlg@miketullett.net...
>I have been looking at a few 3 offers of late, with a view to moving to
> them from O2. Their website shows good network coverage here in NI but
> whenever I scan for networks using my existing phone I never see them
> mentioned. Should I see them listed separately or do they use another
> provider's network?
>
> TIA

You would only see them showing as 3 if you currently use a 3G phone, they
roam onto Orange when out of 3G coverage.

#4 (**permalink**) 10-09-2007, 07:41 AM

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 08:10:11 +0100, acdeag wrote in
<news:5n0nqkFfmr2cU1@mid.individual.net>

> "MikeT" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
> news:1qxdwdr1dvmi4.dlg@miketullett.net...
>>I have been looking at a few 3 offers of late, with a view to moving to
>> them from O2. Their website shows good network coverage here in NI but
>> whenever I scan for networks using my existing phone I never see them
>> mentioned. Should I see them listed separately or do they use another
>> provider's network?
>>
>> TIA
>
> You would only see them showing as 3 if you currently use a 3G phone, they
> roam onto Orange when out of 3G coverage.

Thanks for the replies in this thread. My phone is not 3G capable so I now
see the reason why 3 doesn't show.