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does anybody use the orange network for dispatching and is it any good?

and anybody have any experience with vodafone as o2 seem to be getting worse by the day been having alot of trouble lately they seem to be doing there maintenance work on the busiest nights of the week. Recieved an email from them today:

Good morning,

This e-mail is to notify you that O2 will be carrying out maintenance on parts of the GSM and GPRS network between 18/10/08 at 22:00 and 19/10/08 to 06:00.

This will result in the loss of GSM and GPRS services to cells for up to 4 hours in the following locations: North Lanarkshire, East Dunbartonshire and Clackmannanshire.

A full list of postcodes which will be affected is detailed in the attached document.

If you have any queries relating to the maintenance event, please contact Customer Services on the usual telephone number, quoting Change Control Record 1460058

Any questions from your GPRS users must be directed initially to your own internal help-desk.O2 apologises for any inconvenience this may cause.
It is O2’s policy to inform customers of the GSM and GPRS Bearer Services of planned and unplanned network outages to nominated contacts appointed by the customer. If you are no longer the appropriate contact for your company, or your contact details are changing, please reply to this e-mail with new contact details. O2 thanks you for your cooperation.

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FK8 2DX
FK8 2DX
FK8 2DX
PH4 1QT
FK6 5HJ
G67 1JW
G67 1JW
FK15 0BE
FK2 8RW
FK10 1AL
FK15 9LP
FK9 4JR
FK10 3EF
FK5 3HT
FK4 1HA
FK7 8EU
G63 9EW
G66 7DG
G65 0BN
G62 6HE
G65 0QH
G66 7AR
NS XXX XXX
G68 0LS
FK7 9PY
FK8 3DR
FK9 4UX
FK15 0NN
FK1 4JD
FK7 8AZ
FK4 2EH
G68 9HP
FK7 8AB
FK7 8AB
FK9 5PB
FK9 5PB
FK10 2TT
FK10 2TT
FK10 2TT
G66 8DN
FK15 0LL
FK6 6QZ
FK5 4RZ
FK6 5NA
FK4 1HP
FK7 8HF
PH4 1QU
FK8 3AB
FK7 8AN
FK7 7LP
FK5 4QR
FK11 7ES
G68 0JN
G68 0JN
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G65 9TS
FK8 2HD
FK9 4LT
FK13 6NL
FK10 1NT

We are with vodaphone for our gprs for the pda's & we have not had a problem at all with them not to say that if they do maintenance work we wont have but so far so very good

We have users on all the networks and I reckon most have experienced a reduced service at some point. Trouble is that as more people move in this direction, the network providers need to upgrade their systems to cope with the demand and while they’re doing this, they often run very slowly or even go off completely.

But as the sayin goes, you can't make cakes without breaking a few eggs in the process!

I think the ideal situation for anybody would be a pda or data unit running on gprs with pmr fall back or the other way around but not many companies av that capability within their system but as a loss of service with your landlines or gprs connection at least you av a chance of falling back to 1

We are with O2 and recently they have been going down regulary, something to do with not enough lines to handle the work?
I worked from 6pm till 3am tonight and O2 went down about 6 times!

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stressed controller!!!

They moved us onto Orange after some major issues with O2, the downtime with Orange is no where near as much as it was with O2.