The iPhone sucks at roaming
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I am getting quite tired of seeing this a lot:
Ya see... here's the thing. In Europe, people tend to cross borders. A lot. Especially business people. I know that the iPhone was made in the USA, and although us outsiders have to practically audition to gain entry to the USA at this stage, once you are in, your network coverage is relatively carrier static.
In Europe, its different. Very different. Lets take my example. I live in Northern Ireland (aka the United Kingdom) and would use O2UK. Once I cross the land border to Southern Ireland, my phones would need to switch to Vodafone or O2Ireland, or Metor. Flying to other countries, which I am lucky enough to do from time to time, means my phone needs to join many different cellular networks. This IS NOT data roaming. This is just simple GSM roaming (i.e. to make and take calls). My blackberry just switches network... as it needs to, and I can set preferred carriers if I want. I can cross borders over land and the phone switches network, and I can be on a call for that period. Easy.
When my iPhone loses it network carrier, it barfs and displays "no service", until I manually switch it to another network.. and that can easily take time as the unit has to scan and find them all. If you don't believe me, drive from Newry to Dundalk (border crossing between Northern and Southern Ireland) with an iPhone... You are disconnected for up to 5 minutes.
When I land in another country, taking my blackberry out of flight mode is simple. It just finds the preferred network. My iPhone sits there, looking pretty and confused, and even trying to get it to select a new network takes AGES, and sometimes even a restart. Imagine this was my full-time business phone.
The iPhone, is not corporate ready.
I am getting quite tired of seeing this a lot:
Ya see... here's the thing. In Europe, people tend to cross borders. A lot. Especially business people. I know that the iPhone was made in the USA, and although us outsiders have to practically audition to gain entry to the USA at this stage, once you are in, your network coverage is relatively carrier static.
In Europe, its different. Very different. Lets take my example. I live in Northern Ireland (aka the United Kingdom) and would use O2UK. Once I cross the land border to Southern Ireland, my phones would need to switch to Vodafone or O2Ireland, or Metor. Flying to other countries, which I am lucky enough to do from time to time, means my phone needs to join many different cellular networks. This IS NOT data roaming. This is just simple GSM roaming (i.e. to make and take calls). My blackberry just switches network... as it needs to, and I can set preferred carriers if I want. I can cross borders over land and the phone switches network, and I can be on a call for that period. Easy.
When my iPhone loses it network carrier, it barfs and displays "no service", until I manually switch it to another network.. and that can easily take time as the unit has to scan and find them all. If you don't believe me, drive from Newry to Dundalk (border crossing between Northern and Southern Ireland) with an iPhone... You are disconnected for up to 5 minutes.
When I land in another country, taking my blackberry out of flight mode is simple. It just finds the preferred network. My iPhone sits there, looking pretty and confused, and even trying to get it to select a new network takes AGES, and sometimes even a restart. Imagine this was my full-time business phone.
The iPhone, is not corporate ready.
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Have a good one dude
Posted by TheOldGit At 04:21:55 On 01/09/2008 | - Website - |
Maybe it's a firmware or a 3G issue?
btw mine is obviously unlocked&jailbroken...
Posted by Janko Stefancic At 18:12:27 On 30/08/2008 | - Website - |