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I have been an Orange/EE customer for over 20 years

johnbyron
Explorer

I totally agree. I have been an Orange/EE customer for over 20 years, and always had a 4 bar signal in my work location. A year ago, following extensive BT meddling with the boxes this dropped to 1 bar, and constantly drops out. I am ageing now and work as voluntary Chair of Trustees for a charity, but find, for instance, when the alarm activates in the middle of the night, I have to walk up to the top of the drive in the pitch black and often pouring rain to talk to ADT about the alarm activation. If they give me instructions about how to reset the alarm panel I cannot do it as I am away from the panel, which is totally useless. The problem is so bad that I have just had to return my BT Complete Wi-Fi Plus upgrade, as it depends on being backup up by an EE signal and I could only ever get 1 bar. I went back to my Business Smarthub 2 with no backup, as I couldn’t get one anyway. After years of being a loyal customer for both myself and my wife- she is on Android and I am on Apple and we both have new phones with the same appalling connectivity I think it’s time we jacked in our expensive EE contracts and moved on to another provider that is cheaper and gives a much better customer service.

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Leanne_T
EE Community Support Team

Hi @johnbyron 

Thanks for coming to the community. 

I am sorry you are experiencing signal problems, is this in more than one area? 

Have you reported the problems you are having on the Service Status Checker? Once reported the team will get the area looked into and keep you updated. 

Leanne. 

bristolian
EE Community Star
EE Community Star

@johnbyron wrote:

I totally agree. I have been an Orange/EE customer for over 20 years, and always had a 4 bar signal in my work location. A year ago, following extensive BT meddling with the boxes this dropped to 1 bar, and constantly drops out.....After years of being a loyal customer for both myself and my wife- she is on Android and I am on Apple and we both have new phones with the same appalling connectivity


It's tricky to work out whether your issues are regarding EE's mobile network, or BT/EE's home broadband service.

You've mentioned "BT meddling with the boxes" which implies broadband, but also refer to perceived onscreen bars.

johnbyron
Explorer

When I say “meddling with the boxes” there were BT vans at the green roadside boxes all around the area for days on end. Since that time the mobile signal is not worth having. There are 3 of us in this location- all on EE, two with different model I-phones and one with a Samsung on android, and we NEVER get more than a ONE bar service, that drops calls for fun. We lost a perfectly great service and are left with a service that is expensive but not even worth having. Our location is TF29RS.

bristolian
EE Community Star
EE Community Star

Unless those street cabs are the ground-level equipment for micro-cells (on street furniture or suchlike), they are far more likely to be fixed-line broadband kit.

Fixed-line & the mobile network are different infrastructure.

JimM11
Brilliant Contributor
Brilliant Contributor

@johnbyron You need to check and report the mobile issue with your area checker, the forum cannot help you in any way!