[plug] OT: Mobile reception boost

[W.Kenworthy]

I am in E. Vic Park (same hollow?) and know what you mean.  Metal roof,
surrounded by metal roofs (signal improves dramatical by going outside).
I moved from telstra to vodafone a while back and signal went from
borderline + dropouts to reasonable.  Same with Murdoch Uni, had to go
outside most buildings to get a usable signal, vodafone is much better
(tower placement here) The Telstra signal in general seems inferior to
vodafone in Perth (dont see how, dont they often share towers?) ... and
theirs also the $$$$ saving each month!!

Buy a vodafone prepay and test, or email me offline and I'll drop by and
you can borrow my sim and test it on the spot.

Telstra do have much better country coverage.  Is their such a thing as
a multinetwork SIM? - uses the network you set, but makes available
other networks on demand.  Otherwise its have two sims.

BillK

On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 22:33 +0800, Mike Holland wrote:
> Carl Gherardi wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > I'm about to get on the phone and do some research into how I can
> > boost the mobile phone reception in my home.
> 
> Couldn't you just port to another network?
> You'd have to be _very_ unlucky if all five mobile networks
> had the same dead spot in Vic Park.
> 
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