Final test to round off my brief venture onto Three resulting in a trip through their nemesis area… Clapham Junction!
To be fair, this is heads and shoulders above how Three used to be here, as late as about 2016 there wasn’t even ANY signal around platform 17!
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Safe to say I’ll personally be staying put on Vodafone/O2 based networks for now, but it is encouraging to see Three’s made a lot of progress overall compared to how they were not that long ago.
A shame that their app and weird voicemail system lets them down, as well as their mind-bendingly inconsistent network coverage/speeds (I think I’ve seen both the best and the worst pings for example on Three, similarly both the fastest and the slowest speeds).
However, if it works for you I’d say go for Smarty as the app is lightyears ahead of the Three app. Same with the network, if you’re in a good area for their service then I’d say fair enough, but if you move postcodes too often throughout the day then some say maybe not - certainly without a dual SIM phone!
Anyway, my two pence worth thrown into the mix there.