Thread: Next G to reach Telstra users two months early

Originally Posted by rick130

and thankfully our CDMA antenna's will work with Next G, or so I've been told.

Yep, very similar frequency.

I'm going to put off replacing my CDMA as long as I can in the hope that they come up with some better deals, and the handsets get better.

that's the catch isn't it,
currently they want to up the rent and supply crap phones for it.
like i have a nokia cdma and want to upgrade to next g ['cause there's no choice] and i don't want a friggin' flip phone, and don't want a pocket computer pda thingy, i just want a phone with the best coverage, without being silly [like sat phone]
i don't even want a camera in the phone.
all i want is a phone that will work in remote areas, 'cause that's where i have to go now and then.

Originally Posted by Piddler

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If you have a reception issue lash out buy a carkit and a decent aerial.

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All very well, but that does not deal with the problem that CDMA and probably NextG do not work in any of the malls in Dubbo, and, for example while the handset works inside my house it does not work inside my neighbour's house, does not work in my shed, does not work over two thirds of my property ....

I agree, a car kit helps enormously, but does not provide the same utility as handheld coverage does. Then there is the question - am I supposed to get car kits for the farm ute, the town car and the tractor? How about the four wheeler?

John

Everyone has a gripe about Telstra.
Can't get reception here, can't get it there.
Of course they can't cover every square mile of Australia, but at least in just about every town you will get Telstra coverage somewhere. There is no other phone company that even tries to match Telstra when it comes to the bush.
In fact, you won't see any other communications provider vehicles on the road out of the Capital Cities.
I'm not associated with Telstra in any way, but do get a bit sick of the Telstra bashing when no other company even comes close outside of a city.
But I must agree, at the moment the next G handsets do seem to be of poor quality.

Greg

Originally Posted by GregTD5

Everyone has a gripe about Telstra.
Can't get reception here, can't get it there.
Of course they can't cover every square mile of Australia, but at least in just about every town you will get Telstra coverage somewhere. There is no other phone company that even tries to match Telstra when it comes to the bush.
In fact, you won't see any other communications provider vehicles on the road out of the Capital Cities.
I'm not associated with Telstra in any way, but do get a bit sick of the Telstra bashing when no other company even comes close outside of a city.
But I must agree, at the moment the next G handsets do seem to be of poor quality.

Greg

I agree with you entirely - but their coverage does not meet their published maps - which also have other problems, including ones such as not even having the place names of all their tower locations.

Because I live in the country, I have to deal with Telstra, and because here they have no real competition, you get treated like dirt.

John

Originally Posted by JDNSW

I agree with you entirely - but their coverage does not meet their published maps - which also have other problems, including ones such as not even having the place names of all their tower locations.

Because I live in the country, I have to deal with Telstra, and because here they have no real competition, you get treated like dirt.

John

This is the best I can find, not easy though...

From the ACMA (I am assuming that the 800MHz are for Next G as there are no 850MHz licenses.)

800 MHz Upper Band
web.acma.gov.au/pls/radc...CENCE_NO=1137819

800 MHz Lower Band
web.acma.gov.au/pls/radc...CENCE_NO=1137818

Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

On our holiday I had a CDMA and two other people had Next G. For the most part the coverage was identical. However there was a next G tower at the Telfer mine and no CDMA.

Geez, you're lucky. When I went there to work just 18 months ago, I had to buy a prepaid GSM phone just to have comms. There was no other service! Marble Bar has nothing at all! That amazes me. The amount of mining (boom) related traffice going through or staying at Marble Bar at the moment is huge, but still nothing from Telstra.

I had a CDMA phone and it was starting to play up, so I got Next G. What a mistake. The coverage is absolutely appalling. It's not the phone. I connect it to an external antenna when it's in the vehicle and the reception is not a patch on what I used to have with CDMA. A pox on Telstra, I say.

They've gone to rack and ruin since I left them in '87.

Cheers,

Russ.

Originally Posted by Piddler

For your information Numpty's Missus Telstra actually has by far and away the best coverage of any company in Tasmania. Optus a little Vodaphone and 3 don't bother.

I have a CDMA Telstra in Tasmania with a 7.5DB external aerial and it works a treat in most places. Even way down to Sandy Cape and the Pieman River on the West Coast which is very remote.

The other day the local phone dealer who suspects that the problem with Next G phones is the aerial's got me to try a demo one and use a patch lead to connect it to my 7.5 DB aerial.

Result
It worked a treat in a very isolated area where my CDMA works only with the 7.5 dB aerial.

If you have a reception issue lash out buy a carkit and a decent aerial.

The below company sells car kits which you can buy a cradle for most phones. If you buy a new phone of different type you ony have to buy a new cradle. They even have house type ones.

http://www.ptp.net.au/index_au.html

Cheers
Piddler

Great site mate thanks for the info