Thread: Telstra CDMA to Next G - free phones

FWIW one of the vets I know has a Samsung WCDMA phone and has had a good experience so far, reckoning she is getting as good or better coverage than her CDMA phone did between Tamworth and Scone.

Originally Posted by Bushwanderer

Hi Utemad,
I think that Telstra "stuffed up" (surprise, surprise) when they offered you the LG550. As far as I know that is only available for a swap on a $40 or higher plan. The Nokia 6120 is the "swap over" phone for a $30 plan.

Please be aware everyone, that Telstra has 3 levels of reception rating, to paraphrase:
1. metropolitan (meaning "why go to NextG").
2. Regional (meaning metropolitan & somewhat further afield, around areas like Dubbo, NSW).
3. Rural (meaning the best reception coverage available).

Telstra rates the Nokia 6120 as suitable for Regional areas.

At the moment, the only phone that Telstra rates for Rural handheld coverage is the LG550.

I imagine the reason the LG gets the tick of better reception is due to the way the external antenna connects.

This may change tomorrow.

So long as the reception difference (particularly as a handheld so no external antenna) isn't too different then I am much happier to have gotten the Nokia. Whenever I have got a different brand I always end up regretting it.
Although I did see the different phone reception levels on the Telstra website. I can't find it now though. Got a link?

Well, I got my new NextG phone on Tuesday, and phoned in to activate it. Since then I have spent a total of over two hours on the phone to Telstra, and the only result has been promises, some even giving a specific time that it will be activated. But it is still not working, and calls still going to my CDMA phone.

In the latest call to Telstra the human I managed to get eventually was unable to get through to the relevant section and said he was told there was a 36 hour backlog. Since mine has now been waiting longer than this, it is a bit of an understatement. And hardly a good advertisement considering the company knows just how many customers there are to change over and is currently running an advertising campaign to try and get people to change.

John

My account went from the CDMA to the NextG phone in about 5mins maximum. Not including the 10mins spent on the phone having it changed.

They are smsing me offering me $100 credit

I wonder if it's going to get any better than that.

Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

They are smsing me offering me $100 credit

I wonder if it's going to get any better than that.

I got that too. After I had changed over already I wonder if they would give it to me anyway

They will keep offering things up to the end I suppose. However a free phone not on contract versus $100 off a paid for phone/account. I guess it depends on how much the phone costs you as to which one is better.

I have just switched over from CDMA.
$100 credit, LG550 on $30 pm plan, and I ordered a car phone kit from Techoni Technologies Pty Ltd.

$187.90 delivered.
Telst wanted a $60 plan plus $49, which worked ot to be $700 odd, or buy it know for $329!!

I told them I now know how the can afford to pay that yank 3 million a year!

Well, the new phone is now working - although I have yet to actually use it. Got a call from someone higher up at Telstra who actually understood the system well enough to work out what the problem was.

Very simple actually - it doesn't change to Next G until the CDMA phone is switched off and the Next G phone switched from off to on after that - I had both phones on, so that I would know they had changed it when incoming calls went to the new phone!

You would think that someone would have been able to work that out in less than five days?

John