Alton Towers Hotels. A Vodafone-free zone...

How can Vodafone not have any coverage (2g or 3g) in the Alton towers
hotels? The staff say it is a well known problem there and Bt only
empty the phone boxes once a week so they are often jammed up. They
let people use the hotel phone to make a few calls if you are really
stuck.

Lots of Orange signal there so there must be a mast around there
somewhere.

Come on Voda! It's one of the country's top tourist spots!

Jules

On 1 Jul, 11:22, Jules <a...@anon.com> wrote:
> How can Vodafone not have any coverage (2g or 3g) in the Alton towers
> hotels? The staff say it is a well known problem there and Bt only
> empty the phone boxes once a week so they are often jammed up. They
> let people use the hotel phone to make a few calls if you are really
> stuck.
>
> Lots of Orange signal there so there must be a mast around there
> somewhere.
>
> Come on Voda! It's one of the country's top tourist spots!
>
> Jules

They banned smartphones allready wont be long before they do the rest
if they had there way ! ( http://www.systemtek.co.uk/modules.p...rticle&sid=246
) who knows...

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38e7e2fd-fe6b-4529-9298-108880b5dd05...oglegroups.com,
systemtek <duncan@systemtek.co.uk> Proclaimed from the tallest tower:

> On 1 Jul, 11:22, Jules <a...@anon.com> wrote:
>> How can Vodafone not have any coverage (2g or 3g) in the Alton towers
>> hotels? The staff say it is a well known problem there and Bt only
>> empty the phone boxes once a week so they are often jammed up. They
>> let people use the hotel phone to make a few calls if you are really
>> stuck.
>>
>> Lots of Orange signal there so there must be a mast around there
>> somewhere.
>>
>> Come on Voda! It's one of the country's top tourist spots!
>>
>> Jules
>
> They banned smartphones allready wont be long before they do the rest
> if they had there way ! (
> http://www.systemtek.co.uk/modules.p...rticle&sid=246
> ) who knows...

Hmm, that's an odd one. I've used my phone to text friends at Alton Towers
if we've split up for a while, and are now trying to meet up again... Seeing
as at least one of my friends phone is a PDA style thingy, I can see this
causing problems!!

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Chris.
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On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 11:46:23 +0100, "ChrisM"
<chris_mayersblue@suedeyahoo.com> wrote:

>Hmm, that's an odd one. I've used my phone to text friends at Alton Towers
>if we've split up for a while, and are now trying to meet up again... Seeing
>as at least one of my friends phone is a PDA style thingy, I can see this
>causing problems!!

It isn't that they are trying to stop people using mobiles (or even
pdas - which is a voluntary thing and a bit of a free-advertising/
headline-grabber), they say Voda won't put a transmitter in. Maybe
Orange had to pay Alton Towers for the privilege and Voda won't?

Jules

On Jul 1, 12:26*pm, Jules <a...@anon.com> wrote:
> It isn't that they are trying to stop people using mobiles (or even
> pdas - which is a voluntary thing and a bit of a free-advertising/
> headline-grabber), they say Voda won't put a transmitter in. Maybe
> Orange had to pay Alton Towers for the privilege and Voda won't?

I've just checked to see if we have any planned coverage for the Alton
Towers Hotels and we don't. Although if Orange have coverage then we
should also have coverage when our site sharing goes live.

Vodadrew
Vodafone UK