Kyocera CDMA retailers ?

Me too

Buggerlux

Is CDMA all it cracked up to be

I have a van at Merry Beach and have an optus phone which does not have coverage unless you walk up the hill

A friend just brought a CDMA phone from Telstra and did not get any better reception

Your thoughts please

Rod

Mine was aquired through Telstra and have not had any dramas. Just a point on CDMA with Orange. I believe that because Orange has a limited coverage IE Sydney/Melbourne then Orange has to get into the Telstra net, you will pay an additional flag fall. Correct me if I'm wrong

There's a lot of info here in the archives re CDMA and how good it can be. Having done that, I wanted to find the retailers. Seems CDMA has the greater coverage in Oz, BUT hoards of little dropout spots within. GSM has a smaller coverage, but few drop out spots within it seems. I might go Kyocera CDMA and give it a burl....or Nokia 2280...whatever has the best price options. Telstra has a $10 plan for CDMA that has some free-to-telstra-phone calls built in - might be good value.

I have a Kyocera CDMA from Telstra. It is a good phone even picking up signals in remote country and up to 50km from a tower. Can't fault it except that the buttons are harder to access when the phone is inside its cover.

Banjo'
Once you chuck a 6.5db gain antenna on the bull bar and hook it up to a patch cord to the odekalone you will find a great difference in range too

Quality 6.5db antenna cost up to $120/130 and patch lead around $25 ...from your good local country Telstra shop (seems most city orientated shops dont undersant patch leads) you need the path lead to connect the antenna direct to the phone if you don't want/have an in car kit... works well with Kyocera 3245 ..

Banjo,
Graham & Ann summed it up spot on. The patch lead straight to the phone is quicker and cheaper than an in car kit. If you decide to go that route and have problems locating a patch lead, give me a hoy and I'll put you onto my bloke who can set you up.
Macca

There is more to comparing phone charges than just the call costs. Try doing a full comparison including bonus credit allowances and optional call options. Don't rely on your old plan details as the new plans are different.

My nephew had to do a school project on different phone plans and after supplying the relevant information in the form of brochures I found it very difficult to do a valid comparison as the plans and bonuses vary so much at the different usage levels. I believe they set it up this way just to increase the confusion that exists.

If you do your homework and still make the switch then I hope you will still be happy in 2 years time. Somehow I don't think so.

Good luck
Bob L

Yes, that is all true. I'm afraid I haven't been able to forgive Telstra for their greedy marketing tactics. I gave up my home phone 2 years ago and got myself my mobile when they started increasing line rental charges so rely on my mobile phone nowadays. About 4 months ago I started missing calls because people were not letting the phone ring for long - just 3 rings(I thought).
After 2 months of missing calls I suddenly received an SMS message from my grandmother who wanted to talk to me urgently. Upon asking her she told me she had bben trying to call me for a couple of weeks but kept getting messagebank....which I had NEVER subscribed to.
Upon calling Telstra I was informed that all CDMA phones had been defaulted to messagebank 3 months prior and customers not notified! I think that is plain dishonest, sneaky and greedy!

However I agree entirely that all the carriers vary everything in their power to make their plans as difficult to compare as possible!

Yep.....for Telstra (and the other try as hard as they can too) read, exploitation, confusion and manipulation.....their daily bywords ! Look at all the profit they make - absolute bucket loads - how do they justify that ? By telling us its all going toward new and better technologies ! With the result that they have high tech equipment to lower their running costs, but the consumer never sees the benefit - that's profiteering. Suits the Gov to have it in private hands - one less thing to
manage....and we let them get away with it ! (I feel better now :o)