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[SandBoy]

Tesco run on the side of the o2 network and asda run on vodaphone or did last count !

Yes,but cant get signal in Lulworth Cove in Dorset on O2 but can on Tesco cheap phone!

[cnj]

interested to find how that works!!

[Taxi_Driver]

After not being able to get a good signal on the sooper dooper phone I bought a cheap nokia from tesco £9.50 ish Use their PAYG,top up £10 a month (they triple your credit and give tesco points) get something like 2000 texts....but get a signal litterally everywhere
Loads of builders etc in the pub have got them now,break it chuck it and get another one (same sim).

But i like my House Brick old phone  Ive dropped it and all sorts but it still works fine 

Depending on how much you planning on using it you might like to click on the link in my sig......For a tenner a month 500 mins, unlimited txts and 1GB data.......its the plan im on with my iphone.
Its pay as go....no contract 
You also get a fiver free credit when you first add £10 credit, i also get a fiver as well 

If the answer is not very much the 'three' deal looks good 

[SandBoy]

interested to find how that works!!

Dont know but someone said something about the built in antenna/receiver on phones
Still dont understand that though as a £9 cheapy picks up signal better than and all singing and dancing smart phone
We have tried differing networks and phones including O2 when the family have been down there HTC,IPhones,Samsung's etc and the little cheapo always wins Same as up here,even loose a 3 signal in the town centre

[aaronjb]

The cheap phone probably has a bigger internal antenna - most smartphones (iPhone included, and I'm a fanboy..) have very compromised antenna design in the name of aesthetics and packaging..

[zirk]

interested to find how that works!!

Dont know but someone said something about the built in antenna/receiver on phones
Still dont understand that though as a £9 cheapy picks up signal better than and all singing and dancing smart phone
We have tried differing networks and phones including O2 when the family have been down there HTC,IPhones,Samsung's etc and the little cheapo always wins Same as up here,even loose a 3 signal in the town centre

The cheap'os will allways win as a simple phone on Signal Strength, as they just have the GSM and PCN dual band, and poss the USA and 2.5/3g to contend with, where as the modern Smart Phone has the added HSDPA, HSDPA+ and 4G on different Bands to sort out, getting Multi Bands to work on a Internal Antenna is bad enough, but the real problem is splitting those Signals for the Receiver's and combining the Transmit Signals back into the same antenna is where all the loss occurs.

I still use my old trusty SE K800i for Voice calls, knocks spots off any Smart Phone in weak area's, for Holidays and going abroad I dig out my old Ericsson T28 with its external Stubby Arial, allways gets weird looks by people but works wonders for making Voice Calls, where everyone else's is no signal       

[omega3000]

my Nokia C2 always gets a signal . Lost count how many times ive dropped it but had it years . Only problem now is the screen face has tiny scratches on it . Wonder if i could lightly sand it and polish to bring it back sparkly 

[AndyRoid]

interested to find how that works!!

Dont know but someone said something about the built in antenna/receiver on phones
Still dont understand that though as a £9 cheapy picks up signal better than and all singing and dancing smart phone
We have tried differing networks and phones including O2 when the family have been down there HTC,IPhones,Samsung's etc and the little cheapo always wins Same as up here,even loose a 3 signal in the town centre

You already answered your own question, although it's more to do with the actual firmware rather than the hardware itself.

I have a Galaxy S3 running JB 4.2.2, and the radio firmware that comes with that ROM works OK for the most part.
However I can't get a decent 3G signal at the hospital for love nor money using the original firmware, but rolling back to an earlier firmware gives very impressive 3G performance anywhere I go (it also improves the Wi-Fi and GPS lock time).

The downside to running the earlier firmware is that one of the known issues is a slightly shorter battery life, but I can live with the hit the battery is taking in favour of just how much it improved the phones performance overall.