telstra, no help

NextG coverage now exceeds CDMA in all locations travel for work. Have Telstra 252 car kit and Nokia car kit side-by-side both on same external aerial and NextG probably 20% more coverage. At national conference last month all agreed NextG coverage now exceeded CDMA. NextG has 200km range towers in some 52 locations presently and more going in.

Brew where do you get your impressions from as they are not the general accepted views?

Beg to differ SARocks - i'm in the industry and have seen FAR too many issues with NextG - BUT Not all Telstra's Fault

1) Many coverage issues related to poor handset design - manufacturers fault, not Telstra
2) Many issues with "rouge" TV mast head amps causing overlaod on NextG Cells - for example one MHA in our region was 18db ABOVE the NextG Carrier!!! (For those who understand!) - not Telstra's fault
3) Many sites have been found to have intermod distortion issues of the CDMA & NextG signals when sharing the same antenna's - Antenna manufacturers issue, not Telstras

Still there is a way to go and Telstra are proactively trying to resolve the issues:
a) Talking to handset manufacturers to get them to improve RF deisgn of handsets
b) Employing staff to track down rouge transmissions and paying for them to be fixed - basically paying for stuff that is not theirs - pretty good i say!
c) Replacing antennas on intermod affected sites

All in all, with the BIGGEST nationwide rollout of a network in such a short time problems shoudl have been expected - and for us SA users - how many months after launch did we get CDMA??? Quite a few - by which time many issues that CDMA had a at launch ahd been resolved. We where just unfortunate with NextG that the whole country got to see the issues with a new network first hand!

and for the record - i'm not happy with my NextG handset performance either - but I know whay it is the way it is and am prepared to wait for the issues to be fixed. In the meantime it works GREAT in the car kit with external antenna!

Cheers

I know it is only one place but..... We were recently at King Ash Bay (near Borroloola, NT). Our CDMA worked fine, though normally only one bar. The dozens of people there with Next G phones were very angry. No coverage at all. Nearest they could get coverage was 40KM odd away.

Although this is a remote spot, there are about 20 permanant residents and during the winter the population goes up to between 100 and 200 at times. That's a lot of phones.

We are going back there next year. Hope they have coverage by then as we'd like to get a turbo modem for the laptop for e-mail and some internet. Not much point with no comms.

i live at athelstone in adelaide and digital and nextg are absolutely useless
i miss most calls when in office or house
i'm on optus and the network is not the answer, as telstra employees also have same problem.

outside by the back fence is ok but its a tad cold n wet this time of the year

SARocks then how come I cant get coverage in my own street, once I move out a street or 2 its find, give me back my CDMA

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