Networks last night

Fighting Irish

So it looked to stay up was meteor, in carlow nobody could use 087 or 086 , only 085 worked :cool:

Pythia

I was in George's Street in town and had no problems all night. I'm on Vodafone bill pay.

1huge1

im on 3 and their network was working perfect
my family is all on vodafone and their messages took like two hours to get sent
i didnt get my bro's on until 2 in the morning with him sending it at 5 past 12
does it matter if your 087 and with 3 or is it all down to the network not your number (stupid question i know)

TerrorFirmer

No Problems with any network here in Galway, everything delivering instantly.

And yes, its dependant on your network provider, nothing to do with your actual number.

Cal

Meteor cleverly saved on bandwidth last night by turning off delivery receipts. Service seemed rock solid.

Cal.

Explosive_Cornflake

Only problems i had were ringing 087. I'm on meteor, and txt's delivered promptly.

jesus_thats_gre

no probs on vodafone - in leopardstown

Darz0re

I'm on Meteor Bill Pay and was in Panama on the Quays all of last night

not a single problem, was excellent

Jam Man

The 3 network has huge spare capacity because it's only recently (6 months) put any users on it and it's a 3G network for starters.

I bet Vodafone 3G users got good availability last night too.....:cool:

buddy

No probs on Vodafone sending or receiving.

omb0wyn5ehpij9

Im on vodafone bill pay and didnt have any problems with texts or calls at all last night

jesus_thats_gre

Its strange that some people had problems but others on the same network didn't.. I think the networks have plenty of capacity on their SMSCs and that the problems were happening at a local level depending on what cell you were registering off.. I would imagine that people who registering of the small cells in the city centre were grand.

1huge1

Jam Man wrote:

The 3 network has huge spare capacity because it's only recently (6 months) put any users on it and it's a 3G network for starters.

I bet Vodafone 3G users got good availability last night too.....:cool:

ya good point but i was in a area were they had no 3G and as far as i know they roam of vodafone in those areas yet i had no problems and the rest of my family who are with vodafone had problems
strange or what

Fighting Irish

MobileInfantry wrote:

No Problems with any network here in Galway, everything delivering instantly.

And yes, its dependant on your network provider, nothing to do with your actual number.

when i type 086 i mean O2, 087 vodafone etc. its just easier to type 086 or 087

rogue-entity

Three Ireland suffered no problems at any time during the new year. I was unable to call any 086 or 087 number and most of those people that I sent texts to, well I was able to send them with no problems but for the most part I got no replies till about 4am. I dont know when they received them because I dont use delivery reports (I just never turned them on).

ciaran76

I am with O2 and had no problems at all. I was in Dublin and all texts came through as normal and phonecalls too.

BrianD

Noticed in the paper that Meteor carried more texts than O2 and wasn't that far behind Vodafone.

They are running a recruitment advert where they now claim to have 500,000 subscribers.

1huge1

BrianD wrote:

Noticed in the paper that Meteor carried more texts than O2 and wasn't that far behind Vodafone.

They are running a recruitment advert where they now claim to have 500,000 subscribers.

ya their advertising is really working for them with their free texts thing much better than O2 and Vodafone and i havent seen a 3 ad in ages

Pythia

AFAIK, the free texts til 2008 ended on the 31st December 2005.
Maybe it has been extended though?

Darz0re

Pythia wrote:

AFAIK, the free texts til 2008 ended on the 31st December 2005.
Maybe it has been extended though?

see here

Cabaal

I had no problems over near years with Three and sending txt's, however I have noticed some txt's taking bloody ages over the last few days.
Some times I'll send two to the same person and they'll get the second one first.