Argghhh - Another Next G Phone Question (Service)
Submitted: Wednesday, Apr 16, 2008 at 08:58
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Member - Tim - Stratford (VIC)
G'day all,
I upgraded to Next G the other day with the "T" company. No complaints regarding coverage around here - BUT - we headed off to go camping along the Freestone Creek Road for the night with friends. Only minimal coverage on and off with the Next G phones.
A friend with us has an Optus Next G phone and she had a full strength signal all the time!
Can anyone explain this? I thought all carriers used Telstra towers/equipment. How can this be so????
Tim
Reply By: Robin Miller - Wednesday, Apr 16, 2008 at 09:25
Wednesday, Apr 16, 2008 at 09:25
Hi Tim
Towers are not fully shared.
Optus have 3g phones but next-g is a Telstra only system.
I have several times monitored phone signals driving north to
Talbotville from princess highway and both Optus and Telstra would cut out more or less at the same time , depends a bit on phone, if its handheld in the car and who has got best view in the direction of tower, and wether that view is thru a tinted window.
Telstra worked best though when that emergency tower was in place over the fire period.
You can get a next g phone like 6120 and have 2 sim cards
Optus to save money , and Telstra when extra range is required, if its available (sometimes optus is stronger)
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Reply By: Member - Davoe (Yalgoo) - Wednesday, Apr 16, 2008 at 09:50
Wednesday, Apr 16, 2008 at 09:50
yep optus can in some areas outperform next G.
Was sitting in the
Brookton pub and noticed there was reception but not telstra (indicated by jst an arial) so i did a network search and it only came up with optus.
Im guessing you have an LG phone
I often have straight gsm phones outperform my Next G LG.
Most recently was driving into an underground
carpark which killedmy next g phone dead whereas my mate alongside me with GSM kept yacking
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Reply By: Sand Man (SA) - Wednesday, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:54
Wednesday, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:54
Tim,
The quality of the mobile handset itself will have a marked impact on how good reception is.
Have read on several threads herein, how some phones were so useless they were eventually replaced by Telstra for another brand/model.
I would also expect the Next-G network to improve after the CDMA one is killed off as Telstra will supposedly be able to increase the power level of their transmission equipment.
Only time will tell how much improvement is gained.
CDMA is dead.
Next-G is the new technology and will improve as time goes by.
There will always be "black spots" where reception is poor and it will then be up to the carrier whether they can justify installing additional transmission towers in the area(s) concerned.
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