What's the mobile signal like on Three?

[johnmcga]

I switched from O2 to Three late last year, and have found Three's signal to be, er, variable, since!

Mobile reception at Glastonbury seems to have improved immensely in recent years, but given Three can be unpredictable even here in London, I'm not sure I rate their chances at the festival.

Anyone have any experience? Can you get a Three signal around the site? Do texts send and arrive reliably? Should I switch back to O2 or maybe EE for the festival?

(I don't care about mobile data, nor particularly about making calls - I just like to be able to send a receive the odd text to coordinate meeting up.)

[Migraine]

On the whole they were fine last year, at busier parts of the day iMessage and whatsapp were more reliable than text message but I tend to find at glastonbury it's less of a problem of getting a message through and more an issue that whenever you text someone or they text you, your phone is in your pocket and the message is missed for a while.

[GoonerRob]

3G / 4G is poor but calls / texts worked fine for me last year (if a bit delayed)

This year planning on switching off the data completely and just using as phone / camera to save battery.

[bexj]

Fine for me, but I'm not a big phone user at Glastonbury, better things to do with my time!

[Stretlow]

I switched from O2 to Three late last year, and have found Three's signal to be, er, variable, since!

Mobile reception at Glastonbury seems to have improved immensely in recent years, but given Three can be unpredictable even here in London, I'm not sure I rate their chances at the festival.

Anyone have any experience? Can you get a Three signal around the site? Do texts send and arrive reliably? Should I switch back to O2 or maybe EE for the festival?

(I don't care about mobile data, nor particularly about making calls - I just like to be able to send a receive the odd text to coordinate meeting up.)

I'm in Manchester and have the complete opposite, I moved from GiffGaff (O2) to three and my signal has been miles better

[Peroni]

If sending texts we always put the time in the actual text message.... your recipient may have phone off etc or your text may be delayed. At least this way they know when it was actually sent.