New iphone, intermittent "no service" indoors in good reception area

Hi. I'm new here.
I've had an iPhone 4 for over 2 years on O2 in the UK, and I've always been able to use it indoors at home. Yesterday, I received my brand new SIM-free iPhone 5, and I plugged in my new Vodafone pay-monthly nano SIM. I moved to Vodafone because they have a good coverage reputation.
According to Vodafone, I live in a good reception area, but indoors the phone signal indicator is moving between 3 bars and No Service. If I leave it on a table, it can change from good to bad over a few minutes, then get better again. This never happened with my old iPhone.
I have called Vodafone, and they say there isn't a service problem at the moment.
I have tried Reset Network Settings, and given the SIM a quick clean.
So, my next line of support would be Apple. But before I contact them, I wondered if anyone here had any advice?

Thanks for the suggestion. I should have said that it was one of the first things I tried. Sorry.
I had a brainwave: I remembered I bought a cheap pay-as-you-go Nokia phone on Vodafone for my kids in August. I switched it on, and put it next to the iPhone 5 on the table, and it's been showing 5 bars for the last 20 minutes. I'm no telecoms engineer, but that suggests to me that the Vodafone network signal is probably ok, and I can rule that out.

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