Talk:Saint Helena/@comment-31946815-20181104165345

I was here almost three years ago and the only LTE-capable phone I had at the time was a Vodafone 890N aka Smart 4 turbo. This phone works just fine in several European countries and according to the specs it supports LTE band 3, 7 and 20. However, I couldn't get data to work on LTE and even gave them the phone for 1 day or two so that their technical staff could try and figure it out but they also had no clue.

In the end, I was actually quite OK with this since considering the insane prices and 2G provided a good "natural" limitation on my data usage. Download speeds were slow as you would expect but it worked quite OK for text e-mails and some websurfing.

On 2G, they or my phone seemed to have a problem with cell handovers, as phone calls would drop sometimes in areas with problematic coverage which is quite an annoyance if you are trying to make a GBP1/min call to Europe and you just see your credit balance decreasing and decreasing. I never had this problem anywhere else with this phone.

I tried to use the callback service of one of the Dellmont brands but calls never reached the St. Helena fixed or mobile numbers I tried and yet I was charged anyway. Complaining to Dellmont customer service only resulted in them telling me that their system showed a successful connection to these St. Helenian numbers and I wouldn't get any refund. Well, thank you Dellmont for nothing.