Re: 86s

[usenet.spam@gunzel.net (Michael Kurkowski)]

Russell Norton <russelln@iprimus.com.au> wrote in article
<39a1db59$1@news.iprimus.com.au>: 

>> Vodafone seems to work everywhere BUT in towns.

Head more than 150-200km away from a capital city, and that will be proven 
wrong (: e.g. in Southern NSW, the phone lost service about 20km out of 
Yarrawonga, and never picked anything up again until about 20km before 
Narrandera (as happened with many other locations).

>Usually they are pretty good (they had service in Cootamundra before
>Tel$tra or Optu$ did). However, not in Junee.

Wonder if this was part of the big Vodafone marketing campaign (Kramer in 
Wagga Wagga, and Kalgoorlie).

>As I stay in Junee a lot, I've been on Vodafone's back for years as to
>when they will put up a base station there. Each time they say "It's on
>our plans, but we don't know when".

Don't travel too far out of Melbourne too often, but I will concede that I 
was shocked when I had no coverage in Junee.

>Oh well - Bye bye Vodafone :^)

Agreed. I have been with Telstra GSM for about 6 weeks now, and it's going 
great so far. The one main reason I left Vodafone was their lack of service 
in many areas where I am increasingly using the phone out in the sticks. 
The next major reason was, that I am/was with service provider AAPT, 
providing Vodafone services. This would have to be the most un-proactive 
company I've ever had the displeasure of dealing with. I could list reasons 
here, but it's a rail group so I don't think I will. 

MK