NextG / CDMA coverage?

[Outlaw]

Okay people, quick question please

Who's switched over to NextG in areas where you can only use CDMA and how good is it?

I've got 3 phones that are finished there contracts and thinking would be good to swap over

Cheers in advance

[waynep]

I don't have the answer but the coverage maps for NextG are on the Telstra website.

[stikman]

Hey Josh,
Eve's dad went from CDMA to NextG. He is between Coffs and Grafton and does not get GSM coverage. He seems fairly happy with it. If you want specifics let me know and i can ask him.

[Outlaw]

Thanks Stikman they're the specifics i'm after.... who can't get gsm coverage but IS getting NextG.

Coverage maps aren't accurate enough... the gsm maps for Optus tell me i can get reception in a few places on the Sunshine Coast where i know for a fact i don't.

[Gidget]

Don't do it
I am in Bundaberg Queensland & my cdma phone got wet, yet again (joys of being a plumber) & they could only get me Next G replacments....
Well after they talked me into it, I left the shop...
Next day I had returned as the phone didn't get coverage 10 minutes out of town they then talked me into a $400 car kit ohhh & a $100 arial
Now I get coverage 10 minutes out of town
Just don't drive any further or your screwed.......
I would hold out as long as possible, they told me after I was a bit cranky (it's not their business that suffers) that as they turn the power down to cdma they turn it up to Next G......

Hope I helped


If you do change over you will most likely be able to sell your cdma handsets on Ebay to cranky customers like me.......

[SheldonA]

I've switched over. Found that coverage is nowhere as good as CDMA but I knew this would be the case.... Believe that by the end of the year when CDMA is phased out completely that the coverage will be the same by then..... who knows.....

Have been a little dissapointed in the coverage but then it has its benefits of work not being able to get a hold of me

Have been more annoyed with the new phone itself than anything. Apparently nokia dont make a NextG compatabile phone yet so all my chargers lying around at different locations are no good to me. Also all the NextG compatible phones are the flip open types which makes it tough to answer one handed and too narrow to put under my earmuffs to have hands free

[SheldonA]

Yeah agree with Gidget as well..... hold out as long as possible... like him I had no choice...

[GuyG]

Instead of renewing contract why not just get a replacement handset and swap esn's with carrier, ie new or 2nd hand handset. Outlaw, if theres nothing wrong with your current handsets and you still have coverage why change?

Cheers Guy

[BigJon]

I got my Nokia CDMA phone screen replaced and the Telstra mob couldn't understand why. Comments as above show that I made the right decision. When Nokia release a NextG nadset, I will consider changing, but I am concerned that it will be a ridiculous flip / slide piece of junk. What ever happened to simple phones with few moving parts that actually work?!

[harry]

i'm in the same boat, got a telstra cdma and they want to shut it down, i keep getting calls from then wanting to upgrade me to nextg, but i want a nokia and not a flip phone, in fact i would be quite happy if its only function was as a phone, don't need a camera, computer, or that other rubbish, just a telephone, please nokia help?
and make it more user friendly than my current cdma nokia [digital was better before we needed cdma]