Mobile Phones

[st00ka]

I'm considering leaving my mobile at home and letting pure chance take over. Anyone else?

[rischbrit]

I like it.... don't really get a signal while you're there anyway as network too busy! Just do what we did if get lost arrange to meet at Leftfield Tower

[fatyeti24]

it's pretty much pure chance with a mobile phone, so it doesn't make much difference.

[safe]

mine seemed to work fine throughout the whole weekend ! virgin's do it better apparently. virgin mobile that is

[GlastoEls]

Sim card removed from iPhone, put into ancient Nokia 3210. Bingo.

[bob parkhurst]

Whats it like for 02 at Glastonbury? Should I bother taking my phone?

T is shocking but I had no problem at Leeds this year.

Edited November 27, 2009 by bob parkhurst

[GlastoEls]

Whats it like for 02 at Glastonbury? Should I bother taking my phone?

T is shocking but I had no problem at Leeds this year.

[irons]

Whats it like for 02 at Glastonbury? Should I bother taking my phone?

T is shocking but I had no problem at Leeds this year.

[5co77ie]

I only have mine there for emergencies, as I tend to rely on SMS which enters another time zone at Glasto anyway, thus rendering it pretty much useless.

it used to be only turned on each night to call the daughter to say,

"hi we're having a great time, shame you aren't here"

But now she comes too so it's only for saying,

"Damn, where the hell are you? If you weren't here I wouldn't be stuck here for hours waiting for you, when you've clearly gone off to do your own thing, have a great time, and forget you were supposed to meet me. You've even turned your phone off so I can't contact you to let you know I'm not wasting another half an hour as I want to bimble about."

[jeffie]

Very useful for hammering tent pags in!

[Langdale Wolf]

I need mine, as I'm so hugely popular and everyone wants to meet me. I can't take a secretary with me, so a phone will have to do.

I do look forward to the annual "Where are you? We're by the flag/mixing desk/big tree/ice cream van/drop the debt bus" conversations. They're funny.

[Conrax]

This year at the Festival O2 was so bad it took hours even a day or two to receive a text and phone calls took like 8 attemps, 2008 i had no problems though

[jeffie]

This year was so bad on O2 that i got texts from glastonbury 2008....

[Ed209]

its weird. 2008 thought phone reception was great. 2009 phone reception was shite. Negative progress. I don't figure.

[Conrax]

This year was so bad on O2 that i got texts from glastonbury 2008....

[firstglasto]

02 was so terrible this year

[rabid]

I lost my phone before I even got to Glastonbury this year, found it when we were leaving!

[popcornmaster]

mine seemed to work fine throughout the whole weekend ! virgin's do it better apparently. virgin mobile that is

[Monkismo]

Apparently signal from O2 last year was poor mainly because iPhones take up more network bandwidth and have stronger signal than normal phones so anyone with an iPhone would have had less problems than those with, say, a Nokia. Everyone with an iPhone who I was with had signal all weekend but I was screwed. We did it the old way by saying where we we going and arranging to meet by the bar on the hour if anyone wondered off.

It was no surprise that everyone I knew on Orange had signal all weekend either. For next year I've bought an Orange PAYG so I can get half price cinema all year and signal at Glastonbury. Shite phone but that's fine because my last phone suffered a death at the hands of a leaking bottle of vodka (only 2 months into it's contract and with no insurance!).

[jeffie]

Popcornmaster

"Same I've always had no trouble with virgin!"

Don't you find you have to wine and dine them, and then they expect you to love them forever?

Edited November 27, 2009 by jeffie

[Deepsky]

Mine has always worked fine there on 3.

I always make a point of making video calls to my mates who couldnt make it.

yes, i am evil.

[sisterofmercy]

Mine worked fine on Orange, but then Orange's coverage is pretty good at Glasto.

I only used it a couple of times though once we got there (was very handy for the 9 hour journey though!), Glasto is a holiday for me.

[ferraristu]

My O2 iPhone was utter shite, waste of time at Glastonbury 09

[psychology]

This could be a problem for me as didn't really use the phone last year but this year I'm taking the kids and need to keep in contact with them. I know they'll be alright as they are pretty sensible at 18 and 16 (unless of course they discover the joys of the cider bus) but we are in the campervan and they want to camp. Wife is worried about this.

[G1T]

Last year my iphone on 02 was fine til the wednesday, when it all fell over, and slowly got better until it was fine by about saturday. Wrote the time in every text i sent to someone off site, and they did the same, so we could watch it slowly improving.

That said, my mum told me that she only just got a text i sent at Glasto this year last weekend. Which seems bonkers, and implies there may have been something more than just poor signal going on.