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Article #894Re: Vodafone coverage Melbourne-Echuca/Moama
From: Gillard = Rudd in a frock
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:16
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:16
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On 17 Aug 2010 09:22:08 GMT, Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote: >Liron <nomail@sick.of.getting.spam> wrote: >[...] >> Is this the experience of other people, or could my phone have problems with >> 2G? My main gripe is that the coverage I experienced does not match the >> coverage as displayed on the Vodafone website. > > For coverage outside the cities and larger towns, there's just one >option, Telstra NextG, period. Everything else is a (bad) joke. > > As a traveller (from The Netherlands), I put up for several years with >Vodafone GSM and Telstra GSM, but finally bit the bullet and went >Telstra NextG and am a happy chappy ever since. Had the same experience Optarse - crap coverage even in the 'burbs - changed to Tel$tra and now everything works, but at a price, of course.
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