FabSwingers.com forum: Blackpool mobile phone signal

By *earthepie OP Couple
over a year ago

Lancaster/Blackpool

Slightly weird request. Every time we visit the clubs in Blackpool, we end up with no usable data signal on our phones all weekend. We are on O2, and literally from the moment we arrive to the moment we leave, even though our phones show 4 bars (full signal) the data is unusable. Occasionally in the dead of night 3am-7am, we will get a bit, but that's it. Went to the O2 shop and they agreed that the network is just over capacity.

So our question is simple - do other people have the same issue, and do people have alternative networks (that they have experience of using in Blackpool) and could recommend?

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By *ud and BryanCouple
over a year ago

Boston, Lincolnshire

We've just got home from a weekend in Blackpool and found the 4g signal VERY hit & miss - we're on Tesco mobile - sometimes had to log on to hotel or pub wifi to get online.

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By *earthepie OP Couple
over a year ago

Lancaster/Blackpool

"we're on Tesco mobile"

Yeah, Tesco and GiffGaff both piggyback off O2's network.

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By *hipster88Man
over a year ago

Leeds

Hi, I had same problem last weekend I went. I’m on O2. I lowered my phone off left it for a minute then powered it on this cleared the fault.

But did this on the way home.

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By *ohshamboMan
over a year ago

oldham

I'm on Vodafone and have never had any problems in Blackpool

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By *arrysBigBallsMan
over a year ago

PORTSMOUTH

I've been to Blackpool on many occasions.

Never had a mobile signal problem myself. But whenever I pay for my hotel by chip and pin, it takes forever. The guy in the Trades Hotel last time I was up, said the WIFI was awful in the town.

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By *tsalwaysthequietonesCouple
over a year ago

Lancs

Yup, we're on sky mobile and can never get on t'internet in Blackpool

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By *eachy123Woman
over a year ago

Rochdale/Manchester/Blackpool and were ever the mood takes me

"I'm on Vodafone and have never had any problems in Blackpool "

Me too and I've never had an issue

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The o2 network is rubbish..lots piggyback off it too..Southport is the same..no signal or data too..I've switched over to Smarty, (pay as you go)they use the EE network...I'm getting data and signal everywhere now..

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By *ynaMike69Man
over a year ago

Blackpool

"Slightly weird request. Every time we visit the clubs in Blackpool, we end up with no usable data signal on our phones all weekend. We are on O2, and literally from the moment we arrive to the moment we leave, even though our phones show 4 bars (full signal) the data is unusable. Occasionally in the dead of night 3am-7am, we will get a bit, but that's it. Went to the O2 shop and they agreed that the network is just over capacity.

So our question is simple - do other people have the same issue, and do people have alternative networks (that they have experience of using in Blackpool) and could recommend?"

EE is the best network, I get a solid signal from Blackpool to the Pointer Roundabout

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