Telstra Next G

G'day Pedro, give 125 111 a call, be prepared to say Next G please on the phone to be directed. I have found coverage to be already good according to the Victorian map but look here Site Link for whichever state.

I am currently on the phone trying to access knowledge for wireless broadband over the network which is supposed to be the future for those of us outside the current broadband reach.

Hi,

Will be interesting to see how this next G system goes.

As for reaching 96% of the Austrailian population - when I went to update my phone and plan a couple of years ago, the Austrailan population apparently occupied about 4% of the country.

So if the coverage is 96% of the population, it won't necessarily be 96% of the country. :)

Seen the price - $0.55/kb - what the!!!!!!
(I believe minimum packet size is 1kb)

GPRS is around $0.05/kb - which still $$$$

CDMA is going to be tunred off in the future, a couple of years from memory. The speeds on Next G will be far superior for data and the coverage willb ebetter for both than any otehr existing network.

Saw it deomed on tuesday and they were watchign Foxtel on the phone and getting 1.5MB with 3.8MB burst on a wireless card in the PC.

As fopr coverage it willbe bigger than any of the exisitng Telstra networks but if you want full coverage everywhere a satelitte will stillb e the only option.

And NO i dont work for Telstra. Pricing of plans no idea yet waiting for information.

Also waiting to get a 3G Imate KJam in a few weeks as a lot of the hardware and features cant be accessed yet as many of the full devices are not yet released, at least that is what Telstra told me this week.

So if i was looking at swapping anyway i would see what they could do to entice me over to the full 3G network.

HTH

G'day,

We've got the Next G people in our building today for hands on experience and discussion. Some of the people who designed the product and service will be there. I will be giong down to show them my old CDMA phone and ask them a few questions. Yep, NEXT G has a bunch of fancy features (which you will pay throught the nose for) but I just want

a good (long lasting) battery
best coverage possible in the bush
large phonebook memory
vibrate alert
durable build
sms

If anyone has any questions they would like me to ask these people, pls feel free to put them up in this post or mm. Will do my best to get answers for you.

John R,
Thanks for that. It appears that the 3G is overkill for what I want .

This is exactly what bushfix wanted
a good (long lasting) battery
best coverage possible in the bush
large phonebook memory
vibrate alert
durable build
sms

What did you learn from your meeting?

Lachie, interesting about the CDMA and changed reception.
Point taken about the LG. I was looking at the Samsung 701 which looks pretty good to me (BIG PRINT)

Pedro

Peter, I have the 6225 as well, just bought a new battery $15 off e-bay landed at my door, It'll do me until they turn off the cdma in 2008...