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Re: Vodafone coverage Melbourne-Echuca/Moama

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From: Rod Speed
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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From: "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Vodafone coverage Melbourne-Echuca/Moama
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