hmm annoyed about the lack of phone signal in stratton impossible to hold a decent phone call somehting definately needs to done about it :S

By Mitchy94 at 17:52 on 01/08/10

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Stratton is in a dip which doesn't help. Unfortunately, Cornwall suffers a lot with poor mobile coverage - especially along the coast of North Cornwall. However, I have always found Orange to be the best, often being the only service with any signal at all. If you are already with Orange and still can't get a signal, then there's no hope!!

By Stephen_Blake at 11:01 on 02/08/10
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Yeah im with orange just got contract typical though living in a dip. I hope in the near future they upgrade these towers which emit phone signal and hopefully increase the range, because it is a nightmare while trying to call someone :S

By Mitchy94 at 12:16 on 03/08/10
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Orange & Virgin can be a bit iffy in Bude but O2 seems to work OK; sorry, don't know about Stratton.

By old_school at 12:24 on 03/08/10
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Well I use 3 for my mobile broadband and T mobile for my mobile phone work and both seem to to work very well. That was for the Wooda Farm caravan park in Poughill and now for where I live in the Flexbury area. I expect the service qualkity to drop during the month through to early September as there will be a lot of visitors using the services
Grahame

By graystock2 at 09:16 on 05/08/10
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I did quite a bit of research into this. You can find the closest base stations on this site: http://tinyurl.com/4scf7z

Briefly - there is an O2 one at Kings Hill. There is one behind the bowling alley building that covers Orange, Vodafone, 3 and T-Mobile. There is another Vodafone one north of Bude past Bush near Ivyleaf Hill. Finally there is another set covering the other carriers further north on the edge of the golf course.

I tried SIMs from Vodafone, O2, Three, Orange and T-Mobile and found Vodafone to be the only usable one in Poughill due to the proximity of the cell near Ivyleaf Hill. The best thing you can do is order free pay as you go SIMs for every network and try them before you sign up for a new contract.

The other solution is to buy a repeater. If you search for GSM repeater you will find them on ebay or Google it. GSM900 (O2, Vodafone) repeaters are about £90. GSM1800 repeaters (Orange) are about £180. I installed a dual band one GSM900/1800 that covers them all which cost £270. Now I get full bars on Orange and O2 when I used to get no signal indoors.

By DenverTheDino at 00:19 on 08/08/10
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HI
my wife has just got an lg gt505 mobile with oraqnge that connects to your wifi at home via uma, she has now gone from no signal to a full signal in the house

By meantol at 14:38 on 15/01/11
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Where I live (in the town centre) I get good reception with two tin cans and a length of string.. My mobile is rubbish.

By robbo2009 at 15:43 on 15/01/11
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