News - Orange and T-Mobile offer joint network to customers

[handscombmp]

Once or twice i've caught my phone roaming onto and Orange network (i'm on Tmobile) but it only last for a few seconds.

It's always in the same area and my phone is normally messed up afterwards for about an hour.

First happened a month or so ago and has only happened twice afterwards.
Wonder if it's got anything to do with this, or is just my phone playing up.

[Mattus]

What I would really like, is for the UK networks to enable the kind of roaming that Orange and T-Mobile are doing. So if I'm in the middle of nowhere I can connect to Vodafone (for example) and pay a premium for calls, just like I was in mainland europe. There are times I would rather pay a lot for calls and texts than not be able to make them in the first place.

It's true. I lived in Germany for a year. Whilst my German friends had to put up with the kind of patchy signal that we know and love, I pretty much always had coverage on my British phone because I could use any network. It is a peculiarity of the system.