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Interestingly I found mobile coverage to be excellent within France (Orange), Belgium (T-Mobile IIRC), Netherlands (T-Mobile), Germany (Telekom) and Czech Repub

Interestingly I found mobile coverage to be excellent within France (Orange), Belgium (T-Mobile IIRC), Netherlands (T-Mobile), Germany (Telekom) and Czech Republic (T-Mobile) during my trip through these countries last October. As I had a EE UK SIM I seemed to roam on Telekom owned networks. Even rural areas seemed to have reasonable service. I also previously (a few years back) travelled through France, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey with excellent coverage across all roaming on mostly Vodafone owned/affiliated networks (with the exception of a mountain pass for which the lack of coverage is understandable!). But then again I found looking out the window and/or chatting to my travel companion far more entertaining than using my mobile phone!

rcarmo 8y ago
This route is notoriously bad, and almost legendarily so. I worked at Vodafone eleven years, and the challenges of providing decent mobile data to a train that cuts through a bunch of dips I radio coverage are... hard. However, the train company bought hideously expensive 3G equipment to install on some cars that they never bothered to maintain. If they did and upgraded them, the on-board WiFi would be better than having the phone try to talk to a base station through the train car. Regardless, mobile connectivity in Portugal is, by and large, pretty good, although ai can’t wait until I can stop using MEO and go back to Vodafone to get stable voice calls on urban streets (their dropped call ratio is through the roof, and me and my colleagues have trouble with voice calls every day).