please help explain next g coverage

Perhaps they aren't Telstra towers you can see?
Perhaps they have had a practice CDMA turn off? I remember someone in Scandinavia was practicing riding his bike on the opposite side of the road before they switched sides. He died.

Who can get any sense from Telstra, it took several phone calls last week to get my ISDN systems switched so I could still use the email addresses and turn off ISDN. ISDN is still working:-(((( Fortunately the emails are too :-)

CDMA here today gone tomorrow, well the 28th anyway, but in your case maybe 13 days early?
You best borrow a Next G ph and see if that works.
If it does you better hitail down to your lovely telstra dealer and upgrade all of your CDMA phones for the nextG range.
Been continplating this move for months but bit the bullet today and got 5 new ones, so anyone who wonts some perfectly good CDMA phones, cheap,they are on the market!!!

Cheers Pesty

G'day Shane,
I do a lot of work out in the South Western region of QLD. I have two next G phones, a work one and my own personal phone. My work next g is a Telstra ZTE HOPELESS. My personal next g is the new Nokia 6120 classic. I take both of them with me all the time and the Nokia has a much better signal or full signal when the other has none. I also live in a signal "black spot" my old CDMA, my wifes old digital and my work next g had nothing but our new personal nokias are great inside, near full range. Also if you are currently using or have an nokia hands free kit in your Patrol you can get an aftermarket cradle from Force which works even better if you are using an external antenna. Also I use a next g turbo mobile internet card which is great inside and out West. As for no signal I did get some sense from a pretty switched on telecommuncations guy not a phone salesman that the towers are not running at full signal until the 28th.

Good luck with it all.

shane,

Maybe some new construction in the neigbourhood has blocked the signal?

have you got a radio station near by? at our old joint we had one a few undred meter away in another street and its tower interfered with our phone on and off....also with the telly and the house phone too! dunno how to help....

Laura

My CDMA has been at half strength signal for a month now, it rarely gets up over 60 %. The system is close to being history now so theres no point getting worrried about the lack of service. Its probably being scaled down to scale the
Netx G up for the 95% of users that have paid the money to use the new system. Shane, it sounds like you have gone to a heap of trouble for something that will be all over in a few days. Michael

thanks for replies all.