🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 14:54:14 +1100, "ant" <dont-look@evil.spam> wrote:

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>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?
>>
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>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.

-- 
Tom Raven