As I posted on my account, I got a Vodafone sim card and the signal is kinda weaker in some parts of the city/country and stronger in many other parts lf the country than the Orange sim card .
I’m curious how is it possible that a sim card has Signal meanwhile the other does not have it(or not as much as the other)…
What I find funny is that the guy from the Vodafone store told me that Vodafone uses the same Towers for 4g that Orange uses, but interesting enough 2-3 bars of Vodafone as fast than a 4G+ of Orange in the place I live
I’m from Romania btw if that matters
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Signal bars are totally inadequate in measuring connection quality, not to mention they are not standardrized at all.
You can bring up the field test menu in your phone to check connection details, for example what band the connection is in, what bandwith the current channel is using, what are the CA configuration, the signal-to-noise ratio, the reference power of the subchannels and so on.
These parameters combined determine the actual quality of the physical channel. Sometimes one of the providers have better channel and CA deployment so they are faster anyway despite not having the best signal strengh because other carriers didn’t deploy CA or wider channel at all.
Also it could be that your phone only supports some of the band combinations and is not able to access some of the fast channels Orange provided, making it an unfair comparison anyway.
Even if the physical channel parameters are the same, or even if they use the same towers, the bandwidth and access priority assigned to each customer of each carrier may be different. This is especially evident if the network is congested. VIP customers get totally guaranteed bandwidth assignment or at least less congested assignment, non VIP ones get throttled to hell.
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