Vodafone coverage Melbourne-Echuca/Moama

I went from Melbourne to Echuca over the weekend. But although
there is supposed to be 2G coverage in Rochester and the Echuca/Moama area,
and national roaming coverage in Heathcote, according to the Vodafone
website, I experienced no coverage at all from just after Forbes until just
before I arrived in the centre of Echuca. Furthermore, when I got to Moama,
coverage was patchy in many places and non existant in places like the Rich
River Golf Club at ground level outdoors (available but intermittent on the
first floor). As I left Echuca to head back to Melbourne, my coverage ran
out before the houses did. Yet according to the coverage check featuree on
the Vodafone website, there is a big ring of coverage that envolopes Echuca
and Moama and the surrounding area.

I have a 3G handheld phone but it does not have 900Mhz 3G coverage, hence I
was relying on 2G coverage outside of Melbourne. I have international
roaming activated, so according to the Vodafone website, I should have
natiohnal roaming activated too. In most places my phone was located in a
vehicle when I reported no coverage, but in Heathcote, central Echuca and
the Rich River Golf Club, I used it outdoors as well.

Is this the experience of other people, or could my phone have problems with
2G? My main gripe is that the coverage I experienced does not match the
coverage as displayed on the Vodafone website.

Liron

On 16/08/10 17:06, Liron wrote:
> I went from Melbourne to Echuca over the weekend. But although
> there is supposed to be 2G coverage in Rochester and the Echuca/Moama area,
> and national roaming coverage in Heathcote, according to the Vodafone
> website, I experienced no coverage at all from just after Forbes until just
> before I arrived in the centre of Echuca. Furthermore, when I got to Moama,
> coverage was patchy in many places and non existant in places like the Rich
> River Golf Club at ground level outdoors (available but intermittent on the
> first floor). As I left Echuca to head back to Melbourne, my coverage ran
> out before the houses did. Yet according to the coverage check featuree on
> the Vodafone website, there is a big ring of coverage that envolopes Echuca
> and Moama and the surrounding area.
>
> I have a 3G handheld phone but it does not have 900Mhz 3G coverage, hence I
> was relying on 2G coverage outside of Melbourne. I have international
> roaming activated, so according to the Vodafone website, I should have
> natiohnal roaming activated too. In most places my phone was located in a
> vehicle when I reported no coverage, but in Heathcote, central Echuca and
> the Rich River Golf Club, I used it outdoors as well.
>
> Is this the experience of other people, or could my phone have problems with
> 2G? My main gripe is that the coverage I experienced does not match the
> coverage as displayed on the Vodafone website.
>
> Liron
>
Doesn't sound surprising at all, I have Prepaid mobile broadband with
them and it doesn't work where their website says it should.

Liron <nomail@sick.of.getting.spam> wrote:
[...]
> Is this the experience of other people, or could my phone have problems with
> 2G? My main gripe is that the coverage I experienced does not match the
> coverage as displayed on the Vodafone website.

For coverage outside the cities and larger towns, there's just one
option, Telstra NextG, period. Everything else is a (bad) joke.

As a traveller (from The Netherlands), I put up for several years with
Vodafone GSM and Telstra GSM, but finally bit the bullet and went
Telstra NextG and am a happy chappy ever since.

On 17 Aug 2010 09:22:08 GMT, Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
wrote:

>Liron <nomail@sick.of.getting.spam> wrote:
>[...]
>> Is this the experience of other people, or could my phone have problems with
>> 2G? My main gripe is that the coverage I experienced does not match the
>> coverage as displayed on the Vodafone website.
>
> For coverage outside the cities and larger towns, there's just one
>option, Telstra NextG, period. Everything else is a (bad) joke.
>
> As a traveller (from The Netherlands), I put up for several years with
>Vodafone GSM and Telstra GSM, but finally bit the bullet and went
>Telstra NextG and am a happy chappy ever since.

Had the same experience Optarse - crap coverage even in the 'burbs -
changed to Tel$tra and now everything works, but at a price, of
course.

Gillard = Rudd in a frock wrote
> Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote
>> Liron <nomail@sick.of.getting.spam> wrote:

>>> Is this the experience of other people, or could my phone have
>>> problems with 2G? My main gripe is that the coverage I experienced
>>> does not match the coverage as displayed on the Vodafone website.

>> For coverage outside the cities and larger towns, there's just one
>> option, Telstra NextG, period. Everything else is a (bad) joke.

>> As a traveller (from The Netherlands), I put up for several years
>> with Vodafone GSM and Telstra GSM, but finally bit the bullet
>> and went Telstra NextG and am a happy chappy ever since.

> Had the same experience Optarse - crap coverage even in the 'burbs

You must have had a ****ed phone, it works fine for me.

> changed to Tel$tra and now everything works, but at a price, of course.

On 18/08/10 04:03, Rod Speed wrote:
> Gillard = Rudd in a frock wrote
>> Frank Slootweg<this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote
>>> Liron<nomail@sick.of.getting.spam> wrote:
>
>>>> Is this the experience of other people, or could my phone have
>>>> problems with 2G? My main gripe is that the coverage I experienced
>>>> does not match the coverage as displayed on the Vodafone website.
>
>>> For coverage outside the cities and larger towns, there's just one
>>> option, Telstra NextG, period. Everything else is a (bad) joke.
>
>>> As a traveller (from The Netherlands), I put up for several years
>>> with Vodafone GSM and Telstra GSM, but finally bit the bullet
>>> and went Telstra NextG and am a happy chappy ever since.
>
>> Had the same experience Optarse - crap coverage even in the 'burbs
>
> You must have had a ****ed phone, it works fine for me.
>
>> changed to Tel$tra and now everything works, but at a price, of course.
>
>
I'm with Optus and have had instances where the coverage is better then
Helstras is/was.

Michael W wrote
> Rod Speed wrote
>> Gillard = Rudd in a frock wrote
>>> Frank Slootweg<this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote
>>>> Liron<nomail@sick.of.getting.spam> wrote:

>>>>> Is this the experience of other people, or could my phone have
>>>>> problems with 2G? My main gripe is that the coverage I
>>>>> experienced does not match the coverage as displayed on the
>>>>> Vodafone website.

>>>> For coverage outside the cities and larger towns, there's just
>>>> one option, Telstra NextG, period. Everything else is a (bad) joke.

>>>> As a traveller (from The Netherlands), I put up for several years
>>>> with Vodafone GSM and Telstra GSM, but finally bit the bullet
>>>> and went Telstra NextG and am a happy chappy ever since.

>>> Had the same experience Optarse - crap coverage even in the 'burbs

>> You must have had a ****ed phone, it works fine for me.

>>> changed to Tel$tra and now everything works, but at a price, of course.

> I'm with Optus and have had instances where the coverage is better then Helstras is/was.

Yeah, me too, tho admittedly there arent very many now with NextG.

Its certainly just as good as Telstra in plenty of places tho.

Between Melbourne and Echuca where I couldn't get any Vodafone coverage, I
found that Telstra (2G/3G) and Optus (2G) were generally available in most
places. There were some places where only Telstra was available. However,
across the border in NSW, there were some places where only Optus was
available.

If I had a 900 Mhz 3G handset, perhaps the Optus coverage would have been
even better for me. But then I may have had better Vodafone coverage, who
knows.

Years ago I went from melbourne to Echuca and had prety good coverage with
Telstra, and that was with a GSM only phone.

Liron





"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:8d2pm3FfkrU1@mid.individual.net...
> Michael W wrote
>> Rod Speed wrote
>>> Gillard = Rudd in a frock wrote
>>>> Frank Slootweg<this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote
>>>>> Liron<nomail@sick.of.getting.spam> wrote:
>
>>>>>> Is this the experience of other people, or could my phone have
>>>>>> problems with 2G? My main gripe is that the coverage I
>>>>>> experienced does not match the coverage as displayed on the
>>>>>> Vodafone website.
>
>>>>> For coverage outside the cities and larger towns, there's just
>>>>> one option, Telstra NextG, period. Everything else is a (bad) joke.
>
>>>>> As a traveller (from The Netherlands), I put up for several years
>>>>> with Vodafone GSM and Telstra GSM, but finally bit the bullet
>>>>> and went Telstra NextG and am a happy chappy ever since.
>
>>>> Had the same experience Optarse - crap coverage even in the 'burbs
>
>>> You must have had a ****ed phone, it works fine for me.
>
>>>> changed to Tel$tra and now everything works, but at a price, of course.
>
>> I'm with Optus and have had instances where the coverage is better then
>> Helstras is/was.
>
> Yeah, me too, tho admittedly there arent very many now with NextG.
>
> Its certainly just as good as Telstra in plenty of places tho.
>