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We visit Great Barrier Island a few times each year, and being 2D mobile customers, we roam onto Vodafone's cell site as 2D don't have coverage in Claris, or maybe anywhere on Great Barrier. In the past we've received fairly reasonable data speeds, but I've noticed during the last few visits in the last 3 months, our data speeds when roaming there have dropped to around 0.9Mbits/sec (measured using the Ookla app). No 3G or 4G indication or even H+.  This has been confirmed with 2x phones and a wireless 3G router. Two other visitors at the house with VF SIM cards received 100Mb+.

 

It seems that 2D customers are being treated as 3rd class citizens, and I wonder if this is normal or widespread when roaming. The current speeds are so bad, it looks like we're going to look at jumping to the red company I despise. Does anyone know if this is normal or are VF pulling a swifty? 

 

The 2D maps show our area to have "3G Boosted" performance. Phones being used are Galaxy S7, S4, and S8. 





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  #2291726 7-Aug-2019 14:56
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@JasonParis should this speed restriction be in place when 2degrees customers are roaming onto the VodafoneNZ 3G network?

 

If it's part of a commercial agreement between 2degrees and VodafoneNZ for national roaming then all good :)

 

Just would like some clarification

 

 

 

 

2degrees has invested more than $950m building a national network and we reach 98.5% of the places Kiwis live and work. This includes a small portion (less than 1%) where we pay for access from Vodafone, largely in remote areas. 

 

We have investment plans to cover this last 1% where customers experience slower speeds than they do on our network. In the interim, the reason customers experience slower speeds is because we're putting our funds into expanding the 2degrees network reach and speed, rather than buying faster data speeds in the last remaining areas where we rent. 

 

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  #2477621 6-May-2020 10:08
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@Spong Looks like 2d has made a goof change to the D/L speed when roaming onto Vodafone anyone able to test? I can tonight when driving home

 

 

 

 

Correct. All restrictions have been removed.





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