[MLB-WIRELESS] Mobile phones in remote places.

[evilbunny]

Hello Nick,

My parents barely have access to CDMA, you can forget GSM for pretty
much 30 to 150km depending which way you go, possibly further...

There is a LOT of places that should whine about now... My parents got
the royal shafting over cdma phones and the pretty ads they had on TV,
the analog network was 100x better then CDMA will ever be... (actually
the network was turned off forcing them to go to CDMA, wasn't by
choice)

-- 
Best regards,
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Monday, September 9, 2002, 7:47:59 PM, you wrote:

NS> Jon Teh wrote:
>> 
>> On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 09:34:57AM +1000, Paul van den Bergen wrote:.
>> >
>> > My father has a country property (hereafter known as "The Block").  it
>> > is in west central victoria near a town called Moonambel, near Avoca,
>> > vineyard country.  He is in a mobile phone hole, both analogue and CDMA.
>> > 
>> > Is telstra interested in plugging
>> > networks holes?  who would I talk to about this? what costs are involved?
>> 
>> Unless there is more than a couple of customers, I doubt it.
>> Costs? The mobile telephony network remains the property of the carrier,
>> so they would have to pay for a new base station, if it was to be installed.
>> You can try your luck at complaining about the lack of service, but I don't
>> like your chances. Take a look if they have any service obligations for
>> mobile telephony in the USO, but again, I don't think this is too
>> hopeful.

NS> Right now (imo) is a really good time to complain about service
NS> for rural users as Telstra is very sensitive. Put bluntly
NS> unhappy country voters = no full privatisation. And certainly
NS> any tower they put in would have to help more than just Paul's dad

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NS> Nick Sibbing
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