Bad phone or bad provider?

[Belix]

Hi folks
Got a iphone 4 on Vodacom weekender everyday.
Lately for a month or two, and only occasionally, I'll suddenly get 4 or 5 messages is quick succession along with notifications of missed calls, but the phone has been on the whole day, and connected the whole time. The messages were sent at different times, but all seem to arrive suddenly, and the phone does not ring at all - almost as if the connection had been lost for a while, and then suddenly reconnected.

I don't have another phone to swap the micro-sim into, nor another provider sim. Does anyone have some insight into whether the phone or provider might be at fault? It's particularly irritating to miss a bunch of calls, and important messages and then have to rush about trying to catch up and call back people.

 

[jvzweel]

Hi folks
Got a iphone 4 on Vodacom weekender everyday.
Lately for a month or two, and only occasionally, I'll suddenly get 4 or 5 messages is quick succession along with notifications of missed calls, but the phone has been on the whole day, and connected the whole time. The messages were sent at different times, but all seem to arrive suddenly, and the phone does not ring at all - almost as if the connection had been lost for a while, and then suddenly reconnected.

I don't have another phone to swap the micro-sim into, nor another provider sim. Does anyone have some insight into whether the phone or provider might be at fault? It's particularly irritating to miss a bunch of calls, and important messages and then have to rush about trying to catch up and call back people.

Yea I'd say the combination of, Apple sucks and Vodacom sucks. on a serious note though, I'd bet poor coverage or provider lag...

Hope you get sorted...

 

[grim]

I've been having similar issues with VC, but only at my house. Seems as soon as the phones changes towers messages suddenly come through.

 

[oronte]

It's almost definitely Vodacom's fault. When I experienced this problem it seemed to me that network switching, especially going from 3G to 2G is awful on their network and was usually responsible for this on my phone. I usually kept my Galaxy S on 2G which solved the problem - a better solution is going to MTN or Cell C.

 

[GreyBush]

It's almost definitely Vodacom's fault. When I experienced this problem it seemed to me that network switching, especially going from 3G to 2G is awful on their network and was usually responsible for this on my phone. I usually kept my Galaxy S on 2G which solved the problem - a better solution is going to MTN or Cell C.

I'd take MTN out of that recomendation... I used to have the same problems, ported to cell c and all seems good.

 

[oronte]

I'd take MTN out of that recomendation... I used to have the same problems, ported to cell c and all seems good.

I'd actually go the other way around, I never encountered that problem in 4 years on MTN, but in the last three months with Cell C I have received some late SMSs (though nothing as bad as the 2 years I was with Vodacom).

 

[Over-Dose]

@ Belix - I am willing to bet that whenever your iPhone does that, you're almost always in the same location. Either at home or work etc. Then you never notice it when you're anywhere else. Simple answer really (and this has nothing to do with the brand phone you're using as some non-Apple fans will have you believe). It almost always is bad coverage.

Since you have your device with you all the time and hopefully move around, you should notice patterns of sorts in how it behaves. That would be the main clue.

 

[Belix]

Sorry for late reply! Does it matter that the phone shows full reception at the time?
Getting really annoying - and troublesome when it's work with an urgent call.
At this point will change phone and service provider, just to be sure!