Re: Vodafone coverage Melbourne-Echuca/Moama

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From: Michael W
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:25

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On 18/08/10 04:03, Rod Speed wrote:
> Gillard = Rudd in a frock wrote
>> 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
>
> You must have had a fucked phone, it works fine for me.
>
>> changed to Tel$tra and now everything works, but at a price, of course.
>
>
I'm with Optus and have had instances where the coverage is better then 
Helstras is/was.

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