Mobile Broadband Coverage
Good mobile broadband coverage is vital when choosing the best mobile broadband provider for your needs. The speeds and service advertising by Vodafone, O2, T-Mobile, Orange, 3 and Virgin Media all vary depending on the location you want to use it.
If you don’t check the quality of coverage in the places you are going to use your mobile broadband service you could end up stuck in an 18 or 24 month contract paying £10-£15 a month for a service you can’t use!
Check mobile broadband coverage in your area
To check the mobile broadband coverage for either 3, T-Mobile, Orange, Vodafone, O2 or Virgin Media for any postcode just click on the buttons below:
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Mobile Broadband Coverage - Tips
- Check your home, work or Grandma’s mobile coverage by entering their postcode in the network’s coverage checkers - just visit them using the links above!
- Got a 3G enabled mobile phone? Why not use it to check 3G coverage for your current network? If the 3G icon appears (usually a little coloured box with a 3G in it) you are in coverage. Make sure you check the coverage in the exact locations you will use your computer to ensure you will get mobile broadband coverage exactly where you want it.
- Know anyone who has mobile broadband in your area? Or perhaps you see the same people using mobile broadband at your fave coffee shop. Why not ask them which network gives the best coverage.
- To minimise the risk of poor mobile broadband coverage why not start off with a Pay as you go mobile broadband package to test it out.
- Mobile broadband coverage is around 80% of the population but it varies a huge amount, even in areas of good coverage such as central London. It may be worth getting a tariff that includes access to WiFi hotspots. O2 and T-Mobile include hotspot coverage in their deals.
Mobile broadband coverage - what affects it?
Your mobile broadband coverage can be affected by lots of things. 3G mobile broadband coverage still isn’t on a par with normal mobile phone coverage. It cuts out very easily thanks to tall buildings or you place in a building. 3G signals are not very good at passing through walls. Even in London you find big black spots that vary from operator to operator.
