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Meteor 99% Coverage

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  • 13-04-2012 12:08pm
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    dutopia
    Registered Users Posts: 583 ✭✭✭


    I recently signed up for Meteor's 30 euros a month iPhone bill pay plan with 1GB of data per month. I love the advertising they do which states they have 99% coverage in Ireland. Well for someone who works in county Dublin and commutes to Dublin city it's quite surprising at the amount of times signal drops to one or two bars or sometimes disappears completely. So when they say coverage, they mean in 99% of Ireland you should be able to get one bar or more. The problem is you can't really make a phone call on one or two bars.

    Also, 3G has been around for a while but it seems to only half exist on Meteor's network? Half of the time I'm on their EDGE network which is about as fast as a 56K modem.

    Is any network really better?


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    Paulw
    Registered Users Posts: 13,381 ✭✭✭✭Paulw


    dutopia wrote: »
    I love the advertising they do which states they have 99% coverage in Ireland.

    That's 99% population coverage, not 99% geographical coverage. ;)


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    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    It is in its hole 99% population coverage. I doubt if Meteor deliver a usable signal to any more than 75% and the remainder is Vodafone Roaming.

    Even at that the 75% get a lot of random drops and lockups, far more than on Voda or O2.


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    dutopia
    Registered Users Posts: 583 ✭✭✭dutopia


    Paulw wrote: »
    That's 99% population coverage, not 99% geographical coverage. ;)

    Very clever :)


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    craoltoir
    Registered Users Posts: 780 ✭✭✭craoltoir


    I know people who switched from Meteor because of poor coverage. O2 and Vodafone have far better coverage.


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    RangeR
    Registered Users Posts: 7,265 ✭✭✭RangeR


    Sponge Bob wrote: »
    It is in its hole 99% population coverage. I doubt if Meteor deliver a usable signal to any more than 75% and the remainder is Vodafone Roaming

    Meteor do Voda roaming as well as Three? are you sure?


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    Paulw
    Registered Users Posts: 13,381 ✭✭✭✭Paulw


    RangeR wrote: »
    Meteor do Voda roaming as well as Three? are you sure?

    No, Meteor have their own network, and don't roam on any other network in Ireland.

    True, only Three subscribers share the Vodafone network.


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    cookie1977
    Registered Users Posts: 6,794 ✭✭✭cookie1977


    RangeR wrote: »
    Meteor do Voda roaming as well as Three? are you sure?

    Meteor roam on vodafone in parts of the west of Ireland as far as I know. Will try find evidence

    http://forums.meteor.ie/t5/Coverage/Meteor-national-roaming-agreement-with-Vodafone/td-p/24807


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    listermint
    Registered Users Posts: 33,997 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    Havent had any meteor issues tbh in South Dublin what so ever.

    Sure it aint that rubbish Iphone :)


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    K.Flyer
    Registered Users Posts: 8,565 ✭✭✭K.Flyer


    I live in Dublin (6W) which is only a few miles from the city centre and it seems to be like the black hole of Calcutta for a phone signal on Meteor.
    I've rang them about it but there has been no improvement. I could understand if I was in the middle of nowhere, but its Dublin city FFS should always be a good signal.


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    grinder23
    Registered Users Posts: 191 ✭✭grinder23


    Paulw wrote: »
    No, Meteor have their own network, and don't roam on any other network in Ireland.

    True, only Three subscribers share the Vodafone network.

    meteor do roam on vodafone in places of no meteor coverage, i frequently change to vodafone coverage when im in the odd spot where i lose signal and i can switch it manually anytime i like.

    when i manually search i get 2 meteor networks,three and o2 but no voda but the 2nd meteor on the list is vodafone also you dont get 3g access while on it.


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