I just refuse to do business with a company that isn't honest and treats customers like something you step in by mistake that's why I was out. I'd have given benefit of the doubt had they stopped selling the problem phones but they continue to do so.
Merger will likely take some years to happen IF it gets past the competition regulator, but it probably will because they let EE/BT and O2/VM merge already.
Hopefully they employ some decent engineers and do it properly - don't need another Orange/TMobile situation where they just turned on roaming for customers to use either network because then you end up with dropped calls and data moving between networks plus extra battery drain and it took them over 5 years to join it all up.
And what about the masts like mine which have both Three and Voda (EE and O2 as well) on them they going to take some planning! There's only 2 sets of antenna on mast because Voda share with O2!! And Three with EE as per their existing mast sharing policy. Plus Three has never had 2G, Voda are switching 3G off but Three haven't yet. They say "From day one, millions of customers of Vodafone UK and Three UK will enjoy a better network experience with greater coverage and reliability at no extra cost" but in reality that will only apply if you lived somewhere with no signal on one and suddenly got signal via the other overnight. For everyone else with signal on both you may be on Three but get dumped on a closer but slower Voda mast overnight, or your phone may start to network hop between front and rear of your house. What it won't do from day one is go wow you now have signal on both I'm going to connect both and boost your speed. They just seem to want to get more people with the 5G symbol up like EE did 10 years ago with 4G. You won't care if you are on a Orange or TMobile mast once they are all converted to 4G... 5 years later we are still converting 😂
