Looking at the new coverage maps they are making good on this - specially the 2009/10 ones. I am really suprised how much coverage is coming to my area (west wales coast)

Telephone networks dont exactly change much in a year...

Looks like three are going to almost double the ammount of masts they have in the uk. This is the only place I could find this, not sure how credible it is? Maybe somone else knows somthing about this?

Three to double network

Hopefully they will have the network capacity to back this sort of thing up when their newly signed contracts with BT kick in.

Hi - Dunno? Maybe the deal has changed slighty, all of them except the e169 was free.

Mine arrived today too, got the e169 and paid the extra 20 quid for it. What sort of speeds are youy getting? I've not tried mine yet as I dont live in a 3g area (bought for my girlfriend who does)

Just to let everyone know the links on the first page do still work (except for the first 2) even though this offer is supposed to have ended, tempted to order one now.

Didn't take them too long then!

I have to say they do seem to be rolling it out fairly quick, quite a few places i've been to have hsdpa now where they didn't before. Just waiting for my local town now!

Compared to that the dolphin 35 tarrif on O seems like a bargain!

I've just been away to york for the weekend - found 3g to be extremely usefull, even GPRS wasn't too bad, was getting 22kps sat in my hotel room.

Best bit - walking around york trying to find 'lush' (for the girlfriend -honest!) quick look on the website, found the address. Whipped out google maps and used gps to navigate to it

Also used it hooked up to a laptop - hard to tell the difference between hsdpa and fixed line broadband when just browsing webpages.

Kevlarski - Could you please report back later on and let us know if it is indeed an H upgrade going on?

Im off for a trip up north next week, I shall report back all the hsdpa enabled places I find if anyone is interested.

Orange - please hurry up and upgrade my local town

Thats fair enough

Its in the 'mid' lands

Blackhorse, are you able to find out when certain areas are due to go live?

I've just been from Aberystwyth to birmingham and all the places that had orange 3g (except aberystwyth) had HSDPA, so that obviously includes Birmingham and also Telford, shrewsbury and most interesingly Newtown in mid-wales. So it would appear that they are rolling along at quite a pace.

Be nice to know where they are doing, seems O are playing HSDPA catchup. I live in west wales and 4 operators cover my local town - all do HDSPA except O.

Hi
Does this mean we will eventually be able to either pick up a O signal from a voda mast and vice-versa or will we roam on to each others networks? Does this apply to 2G only sites aswell?

Hi I am aware there were a few different frequencies, but i though they only had one each? Out of interest - is the B licence better then? Are some of the frequencies better than others? They are only about 10-20mhz apart aren't they?

I still dont understand why orange would be using a second frequency?

Cheers

IS there any technical reason why they are using 2 frequencies? I wasn't aware of any other operator doing this?

Wales?

I think Orange missed a trick with HSDPA coverage. I mean I live on the west coast of wales so i'm pretty lucky to have 3g anywhere let alone HSDPA, but - while O seem to have invested in the most masts and better coverage here, of the 4 3g providers here, 2 already have HDSPA and nationally I think its only O2 that are behind them in terms of HSDPA rollout.

ON a side note I took a trip to south wales, even in some of the more built up areas - no H, doesn't bode well for me getting it here anytime soon.

Im sure I can help you with that- once orange roll out HSDPA where i live