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Article #897Re: Vodafone coverage Melbourne-Echuca/Moama
From: Rod Speed
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:13
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:13
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Michael W wrote > 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. Yeah, me too, tho admittedly there arent very many now with NextG. Its certainly just as good as Telstra in plenty of places tho.
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