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Thomas Raven wrote in message
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>On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 14:54:14 +1100, "ant" <dont-look@evil.spam> wrote:
>
>>
>>Rob wrote in message <3889f738$0$26374@motown.iinet.net.au>...
>>>> fine, good coverage and signal strength. telstras base station
placement
>>>Dont voda pay for the use of teltras base stations?
>>>
>>
>>
>>only in some areas, and only after the ACCC forced them to share towers
>>where possible. the obviously dont here in wollongong as my vodaphone
>>account gets good digital indoors and yet my friends telstra phone cant
>>hold a call inside the house. tried swapping sim cards with him and its
>>defiantly the service provider not he phone as the same situation
applied,
>>had to go outside to use the telstra account regardless of which phone it
>>was in.
>>
>>but both of the nearest telstra base stations are built at their
exchanges
>>at corrimal and thirroul, both of them are next to primary schools and
>>close to ridges that obscure the line of sight to the transmitters for a
>>large are of the suburbs that they are supposed to serve. i am only three
>>KM from the corrimal base station but it is on the other side of the hill
>>and is totally blocked by it. vodaphone on the other hand put its base
>>station half way up the escarpment and have good coverage over a much
>>larger area from one base station then telstra gets with three.
>
>But that does mean that Vodaphone's capacity is less. If they ever
>sign up more subscribers then you're going to have problems getting
>and maintaining a connection in that area because there is only one
>tower.


then they put up another one or two towers and make the cells smaller, as
the area that it serves is about 15 KM long by about 4Km wide i dont think
that they are going to need more capacity for a while yet. still better
then telstras service in the area. i would rather have good signal from one
base station then bad signal from three. telstra had promised(over a year
and a half ago) to move their base station up onto the escarpment but
nothing ever happened, probably to busy with the CDMA roll out, all those
poor rural subscribers.


ant