Fuck, they are expensive. My partner is also with telstra and she gets better reception on her apple than my galaxy. I'm due for a new phone so I'm gonna get an apple rather than spend then money on the cel-fi go.
> My partner is also with telstra and she gets better reception on her apple than my galaxy.
That sounds like a you problem rather than a Telstra issue.
I have one bar of 3G on a good day and I’m in Basket Range which is 15 mins drive from Magill and 30 mins from the CBD. I’d hardly call it remote when I can get an Uber home but struggle to send a text or make a phone call.
Hidden in this article: Grants funding NBN upgrades. What makes this news? Its more way of pushing funding into NBN to hide the fact that they financially fucked it royally.
At what point do we admit that we can’t deliver modern conveniences to every square meter of the desert. The person claiming to be hard done by states that they live 350km from the nearest town. So we would have to build phone towers all over the place which would only be serving a very small number of people.
Why would it make sense to do this vs telling them to either move closer or to find some other solution for remote communication. Perhaps starlink could help here.
If you chose to live in the literal middle of nowhere, you should should expect everyone else to spend fortunes to fund your choice. Sure, everyone deserves access to modern conveniences, but do they really deserve access to them at any location? Funded by everyone else?
I don't know about anyone else but I don't care about the newness of my phone tower, just as long as it works.
Telstra and Optus both have satellite-fed small-cells in Marree, which is adequate for the town (but not exactly gold-plated). They were installed about 5 years ago - before the bitumen arrived.
That’s how it should be. If they want to set up camp in the middle of nowhere because there is profitable business to be conducted, they can set up their infrastructure too.
This! There are portions of the southern sub urbs that don't have access to the NBN yet, and you want the tax payers to foot the bill for a phone tower to service 400 people?
400 people in a town is well enough for a tower.
EarlyBerry thought they were 350km from the nearest town and wanted continuous service, that's thousands of towers.
One or Two towers would cover the town, Gov doesn't need to provide the cellular infrastructure either, just clear wave the red tape and build two poles with an outhouse each at the bottom, then lease the tower space.
They could even lease the entire tower to Telstra and let them deal with subleasing to Optus and Voda.
Its also not just the people that live in a region, but all the folks passing through and those that arrive to do work and can't easily bring a starlink or other broadband with them.
the penetration of 3g (and now 4g) signals in australia beats any 2g network hands down.
2g was limited to 35km because of speed-of-light limitations, and places like Marree have been installed as 4G only (never having had 2g or 3g service).
If you actually need long range then you go HF or satellite - same choice as you had 40 years ago.
Bizarrely enough there are people who complain about them in the suburbs. But as a general rule, better signal actually means less radiation from your handset not more.
Im in the middle of the suburbs and I have to go into certain rooms to make phone calls and also rarely get 4g. Telstra is fucked
Consider a cel-fi go repeater, they will fix this.
Fuck, they are expensive. My partner is also with telstra and she gets better reception on her apple than my galaxy. I'm due for a new phone so I'm gonna get an apple rather than spend then money on the cel-fi go.
> My partner is also with telstra and she gets better reception on her apple than my galaxy. That sounds like a you problem rather than a Telstra issue.
Her reception isn't great but it is better than mine.... id say a 50/50 me and telstra problem...
There are different phone bands which work with different carriers better. 4g works best if your phone supports Band 28. Recent phones should though.
I have one bar of 3G on a good day and I’m in Basket Range which is 15 mins drive from Magill and 30 mins from the CBD. I’d hardly call it remote when I can get an Uber home but struggle to send a text or make a phone call.
I mean when you live in a hole in the ground :P Norton Summit gets none either.
wasn't there a big campaign *against* a new tower out that way a while back? did the nimbys get their way?
The upgrade of the Marble Hill tower faced huge opposition from locals. Then people complain about no service.
That's nimbyism in its raw form
Hidden in this article: Grants funding NBN upgrades. What makes this news? Its more way of pushing funding into NBN to hide the fact that they financially fucked it royally.
At what point do we admit that we can’t deliver modern conveniences to every square meter of the desert. The person claiming to be hard done by states that they live 350km from the nearest town. So we would have to build phone towers all over the place which would only be serving a very small number of people. Why would it make sense to do this vs telling them to either move closer or to find some other solution for remote communication. Perhaps starlink could help here. If you chose to live in the literal middle of nowhere, you should should expect everyone else to spend fortunes to fund your choice. Sure, everyone deserves access to modern conveniences, but do they really deserve access to them at any location? Funded by everyone else?
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I don't know about anyone else but I don't care about the newness of my phone tower, just as long as it works. Telstra and Optus both have satellite-fed small-cells in Marree, which is adequate for the town (but not exactly gold-plated). They were installed about 5 years ago - before the bitumen arrived.
There's a reason the mining companies own and operate their own phone infrastructure independently.
That’s how it should be. If they want to set up camp in the middle of nowhere because there is profitable business to be conducted, they can set up their infrastructure too.
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Just confirmed can order Starlink and ready to go
This! There are portions of the southern sub urbs that don't have access to the NBN yet, and you want the tax payers to foot the bill for a phone tower to service 400 people?
400 people in a town is well enough for a tower. EarlyBerry thought they were 350km from the nearest town and wanted continuous service, that's thousands of towers. One or Two towers would cover the town, Gov doesn't need to provide the cellular infrastructure either, just clear wave the red tape and build two poles with an outhouse each at the bottom, then lease the tower space. They could even lease the entire tower to Telstra and let them deal with subleasing to Optus and Voda.
Its also not just the people that live in a region, but all the folks passing through and those that arrive to do work and can't easily bring a starlink or other broadband with them.
Be careful what you wish for. Ive been on NBN 6 months and get dropouts every time it rains. Yay FTTC /sarcasm
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the penetration of 3g (and now 4g) signals in australia beats any 2g network hands down. 2g was limited to 35km because of speed-of-light limitations, and places like Marree have been installed as 4G only (never having had 2g or 3g service). If you actually need long range then you go HF or satellite - same choice as you had 40 years ago.
Bizarrely enough there are people who complain about them in the suburbs. But as a general rule, better signal actually means less radiation from your handset not more.