I’ve actually never had any spam on my number via RCS (had the odd SMS one). I’m with O2 but I was also with EE previously (on the same number).
Is there a reason for this? Like was there a Three data leak or something?
When I was on Three I had so much spam, particularly calls pretending to be from Three. I’m not with them anymore and haven’t been for years, but I still get spam calls pretending to be Three.
No, in relation to what someone said about some Telecoms having better spam filters.
My number was initially with O2 > Virgin Media > Three >EE > ID >Giffgaff > EE > Three but all through this I still get fake O2 invoice texts once in a while and fake calls until I started spam filtering with iOS.
When I was on the other networks I didn’t get this much aggressive spam until I activated RCS. RCS seems to just let anything pass through.
The weeks it’s off I get zero spam.
Networks spam filters only work on SMS. RCS relies on Apple and Google filtering it…I suspect it will get better but right now seems a bit wild!
I was going to say I almost never get RCS spam, but then looked in the spam folder and found that I do, but Google’s pretty decent at filtering it.
I’m on EE, and recently I’ve been getting significant spam. My number started on EE, moved to O2, then 3, and then back to EE. Not sure if along the way it got breached or something!
O2 has a good built in spam detection system, I think Three does too.
EE offer one but I think you have to pay for it. I never had any spam calls when I was O2, but get some now I’m on lebara.
I think the Three-Vodafone cell merger is working. I was somewhere where Three had very poor reception or completely no signal at all but noticed that now there is strong 4/5G reception and calls plus data work well while there.
Down on the south east coast neighbourhoods.
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Certainly hasn’t in the East Midlands - 250 Mb/s on Three and only 4 or 5 on Vodafone still. If I practically hang out of one of the back windows I can get Vodafone 5G which is around 40.
I thought the benefit of the recently announced network changes, was for Three customers especially. Where if a Three customer previously was struggling to connect with only a weak 4G signal, due to the network sharing, these customers would benefit.
I don’t think Vodafone customers who get poor signal are benefiting yet from any Three signal that may be available.
Once the two networks do merge fully, VodafoneThree will be a clear winner in coverage, speed, and network performance.
It works both ways, targeting black spots first for either network.
People commenting on other forums about how receiving 5G on Vodafone whereby before MOCN they had little to no 4G signal, and no 3G following the switch off.
It’s a benefit to all. Three is unbeatable for 5G where it works well, Vodafone hasn’t covered the east side of the country enough so where Three is available; it saves them a huge job given the Vodafone / O2 divide.
I wonder about Vodafone host sites, around here it’s nearly all old 4G monopoles, I hope they don’t turn most of them off and just lump all the Vodafone and 3 users on the 3 masts.
Just seen someone saying this on ispreview, that they’ve switched off three in favour of VF because they are both at the same site, I think there’s going to be some customers losing out badly due to congestion.
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Guess it depends what bandwidth Vodafone are deploying and how many customers they have locally.
I’ve noticed a weird little quirk with spusu recently which hadn’t happened before.
I watch quite a lot of YouTube videos and couldn’t watch one particular video (from F1.com) yesterday because “VPN Proxy detected.”
This happened on different devices and I have no VPN installed, and it was just that one video - others worked fine
Switched to Smarty and it worked fine.
At first I thought it might be something to do with spusu being Austrian, but I’m not so sure now.
Spusu I think route their traffic back to Austria (presumably their network core) rather than use the EE servers here. I would assume there are costs involved and it’s cheaper to do it this way?
Has anyone had any experience of losing 2FA texts when they ported their number?
just moved from EE to O2 today and im not receiving 2FA texts which are pretty critical to a lot of logins.
all settings are correct and number is working fine, don’t know what the issue could be.
You should receive them no problem. Any specific you’re not receiving?
Looking on O2 forums it’s not just me. Must be a backend thing.
couple to get into banking apps.
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In general the day you port I’d say not to be concerned.
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Looks like Monzo Mobile is definitely on the horizon 
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