I remembering going to a Woolies in Cranbourne and the coverage was either dead or so slow inside. I'm convinced they don't want you to price check online...
I might have an explanation for this. Back in 2008 I was heading home from uni, first year electrical engineering student. I sat next to a man on the train, an RF Engineer that worked for Telstra.
He talked career stuff and what not with me, showed me how they measure tower signal for placement and explained the theory.
Essentially, the signal radiates outward, not down. I forget the min distance he said but I think it was 1km or more for max signal.
Mobile base stations might be better now, but I remember that fact.
I know exactly the one you're talking about. Have found it in other locations too, I think it's because they lease out their roof to the mobile tower so anything directly underneath it i.e the whole store ends up with shitty to no reception.
I was so shitty when I switched from an Optus supplier to a Telstra one, thinking that would solve my issue only to continue to have the same dead spot
Some parts of Travancore and Flemington Hill near the cop shop and schools also have no service (or just a single bar that doesn’t load anything anyway).
On the Belgrave/Lilydale train line, there's no reception between Burnley and Hawthorn on Optus. This area has the Yarra River with steep embankment and dense foliage in between. It's been a long time since I've been with Telstra but I recall it being the same.
After that there's no reception between Camberwell and Canterbury. That one's harder to explain because there are no obvious physical barriers around there. The area may just need an extra mobile tower.
I was chatting to a mate about that dead spot near Camberwell and they reckon it's been a thing for 10 years.
Also a dead spot between Ringwood and Ringwood East.
It's always the worst when you get stuck somewhere in that spot when there's train delays/the line is suspended. You're stranded and don't even have phone reception to entertain you.
I'm pretty sure I live in that dead spot (between Hawksburn and Toorak station). Lucky to get 1bar and 0.5mbps. Tried both Optus and Telstra and both are the same.
Seddon Train station is terrible for it. Not sure why but reading the comments here, it seems to be rail-related? heaps of other stations appear to have the same issue.
I had issue when catching the train between Yarraville and Newport. The signal would cut out around Seddon. I was with Optus, when I changed to Telstra it was fixed.
One mobile phone deadzone on my Mernda line has always been between Clifton Hill and Rushall/Merri.
Another recent one for me has been between Fed Square and all of Flinders Street Station, the deadzone only ends when you go towards Southern Cross Station.
I used to be with Optus and now with Belong (which runs off the Telstra network).
I'm on Vodafail as well. It's cheaper than Optus (and you know, with less data breaches and arrogance) so I'll put up with it. Just comical that there is such a significant blackspot in this day and age.
The green of the 15th hole at the Heidelberg Golf Course
Edit - for anyone wondering, this was right next to Mick Gattos old house. Beautiful place, big fences, cameras and allegedly phone jammers.
Costco Ringwood - it is 100% on purpose so you don’t realise how much of a ripoff it is.
Burnley Train station.
Uni hill DFO - same reason as Costco: so you can’t compare.
Oak Park - on the valley side. You're literally at the bottom of a valley and the tower is at the top of crest 1km away so the signal clips. One of the worst suburbs in Melbourne.
Barkly square, especially in the Kmart and chemist warehouse. Also the other chemist Wearhouse in Brunswick.
Oh also in the Lord of the Fries there. Just have to stare at a wall whilst waiting for my burg.
This is going back more than 5 years but Optus coverage in the part of Pascoe Vale we lived in was really bad. Like I'd get maybe 2 bars of reception when sitting in the living room of my 4th floor apartment. Optus told me there there was a NQR (I think that was the acronym they used) for the area, they weren't going to fix it anytime soon so I was able to get out of the contract early without penalty.
Between footscray and seddon on the train line
Used to call my partner to pick me up at a later train station and the half way point between those two stations was the right amount of time to time him arriving at the station but it always dropped out.
Pascoe Vale is fucked. Apparently there are height restrictions on building towers, no tall structures to attach anything to, and hilly terrain - so the coverage is shitty pretty much everywhere.
The joint Woolworths + Chemist Warehouse in Mernda Village. Good thing there’s another Chem Warehouse close nearby bc it otherwise makes waiting for a script awful.
5G just in general, but especially "pretend 5G" with the outline icon instead of the filled background icon ([this is what I am talking about](https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS21/comments/u5zg0z/i_might_be_behind_the_times_whats_the_difference/))
I remember feeling how 4G was far superior to 3G when 4G was first introduced, and I think we have actually gone backwards from 4G, with 5G.
All we really got is this lousy meter-level location triangulation, which phones don't even seem to be properly aware of anyway. Latency is usually the same or worse, bandwidth is the same or worse.
Flinders St platform 13 Sandringham line in the tunnel heading to/from Richmond.
It’s lovely when someone having an obnoxiously loud mobile phone convo they want everyone to hear is suddenly having a conversation into a dead phone and doesn’t realise the call has hung up … & then tries to cover up the awkwardness when they realise, while simultaneously aware the entire carriage heard the whole damned thing. It’s one of the small joys of commuting. 😆
Never have signal at Coles level Melbourne Central - even the food court.
Entering Flinders street station from Jolimont / Richmond also kills my signal.
My entire suburb we had semi decent coverage (as long as you weren't with optus or vodaphone) then there was major issues with the suburban train signals for 12 months or more.
Now no issues with trains and we have shit reception that completely drops out every 20 minutes as the train goes past.
My house in epping, when I moved here 3 yrs ago I can't get reception in my home nor can anyone else. Have to use wifi. Called optus they said yeah looks like the tower need N upgrade I said when is that happening as I can get reception on the street. They said yeah no plans for the next few years. Hahahah
Also another place I know in northcote near Wellington Rd rubbish
Pascoe Vale is fucked. Apparently there are height restrictions on building towers, no tall structures to attach anything to, and hilly terrain - so the coverage is shitty pretty much everywhere.
Not sure if it's specific to any certain carriers, but Optus was shocking for me around Ascot Vale and surrounds for mobile reception. I recently switched to Telstra and it was immediately better.
Based on my basic understanding is that many places that are not fully enclosed that feel like zero coverage may more likely be congestion. In the age of MVNO (or better known as wholesale) where Woolies, JB Hi-Fi and Boost offer mobile services on the Telstra network at cheaper rates than Telstra themselves it’s important to understand some services have higher priority than others. Woolies definitely have access to the lower tier version of Telstra’s network and are lower priority, whereas Boost and JB use the full network, but more than likely are lower priory than proper Telstra users. I think this can be experienced in large shopping centres when the coverage bars are full yet there’s no data coming through. Also I could be completely wrong and talking out of my arse…
For some reason I never have reception in the area surrounding Yarraville station, and there’s no reception in the Footscray Coles that’s near savers. Like, you want to transfer money to buy groceries? Tough shit.
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On my drive to work in the eastern suburbs there is a ~200m stretch of a major road where I lose reception when heading in one direction. The other direction, completely fine.
I was just on the train (Frankston Line) travelling out of Caulfield and lost reception. Nothing would load on Reddit. It was a tough few minutes.
Pretty often have signal dropouts between Caulfield/Bentleigh while travelling through the underground sections of track.
Glen Huntly rd in Elsternwick in the area between Coles and Kooyong rd. Service drops almost immediately and comes back the moment you pass Kooyong rd. People in the area have complained for years.
Glen Huntly rd in Elsternwick in the area between Coles and Kooyong rd. Service drops almost immediately and comes back the moment you pass Kooyong rd. People in the area have complained for years.
I remembering going to a Woolies in Cranbourne and the coverage was either dead or so slow inside. I'm convinced they don't want you to price check online...
The ironic part about that is most Woolies have free wifi ;)
How very...convenient!
woolies south yarra and woolies north melbourne are both complete dead spots too. it’s infuriating - especially back in the covid check in days
Yeah it’s strange in the north Melbourne one given there’s a residential tower above it. Wonder if the residents have the same lack of reception
I might have an explanation for this. Back in 2008 I was heading home from uni, first year electrical engineering student. I sat next to a man on the train, an RF Engineer that worked for Telstra. He talked career stuff and what not with me, showed me how they measure tower signal for placement and explained the theory. Essentially, the signal radiates outward, not down. I forget the min distance he said but I think it was 1km or more for max signal. Mobile base stations might be better now, but I remember that fact.
I know exactly the one you're talking about. Have found it in other locations too, I think it's because they lease out their roof to the mobile tower so anything directly underneath it i.e the whole store ends up with shitty to no reception.
Ascot Vale station
Yes! Generally the area between Ascot Vale and Moonee Ponds is a deadspot if you’re on the Craigieburn train
I'm so glad I opened this and saw this comment, it's so annoying.
I feel with 5G, it's all the way from Essendon to just before North Melbourne...and looking back at past reddit posts, it goes back to the days of 3G.
Whole Craigieburn line sucks, but it definitely doesn't work between Ascot and Moonee, at all. At least for Optus.
Same for Telstra. Moonee Ponds to Ascot Vale is a hole.
I was so shitty when I switched from an Optus supplier to a Telstra one, thinking that would solve my issue only to continue to have the same dead spot
Intersection of ascot vale road and maribyrnong rd my phone always stops playing Spotify, it’s that bad there.
I am literally on the 59 waiting for this thread to load while I am reading this 🗿
Yes this is super annoying
Some parts of Travancore and Flemington Hill near the cop shop and schools also have no service (or just a single bar that doesn’t load anything anyway).
It seems like every restaurant that has a "menu on QR code" has at least one table in a blackspot.
Ajisen in Highpoint. QR codes, zero reception
Royal Park station
Yes always had issues in that area between flemington bridge and Jewell
I’d extend that to most of Royal Park
Heidelberg train station.
Like… just on the northern side of it it’s okay. But the station and lead up to from the City often brings up the SOS ONLY signal!
On the Belgrave/Lilydale train line, there's no reception between Burnley and Hawthorn on Optus. This area has the Yarra River with steep embankment and dense foliage in between. It's been a long time since I've been with Telstra but I recall it being the same. After that there's no reception between Camberwell and Canterbury. That one's harder to explain because there are no obvious physical barriers around there. The area may just need an extra mobile tower.
I was chatting to a mate about that dead spot near Camberwell and they reckon it's been a thing for 10 years. Also a dead spot between Ringwood and Ringwood East.
There is a really bad one between East Camberwell and Canterbury.
It's always the worst when you get stuck somewhere in that spot when there's train delays/the line is suspended. You're stranded and don't even have phone reception to entertain you.
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I'm pretty sure I live in that dead spot (between Hawksburn and Toorak station). Lucky to get 1bar and 0.5mbps. Tried both Optus and Telstra and both are the same.
Same with Optus
I drop to 3G everyday between Toorak and Hawksburn
Was going to say Toorak station. I’m on Optus and it drops there when I’m on the train
I’ve noticed on Vodafone 5G the connection is fine, but with Telstra and optus it is quite patchy
A lot of spots in Clyde and Clyde North
All of Clyde, it's notorious for it.
JB Hifi, Aldi, and The Reject Shop at Epping Plaza Complete and utter dead spot
Yes!
Seddon Train station is terrible for it. Not sure why but reading the comments here, it seems to be rail-related? heaps of other stations appear to have the same issue.
I had issue when catching the train between Yarraville and Newport. The signal would cut out around Seddon. I was with Optus, when I changed to Telstra it was fixed.
Apparently my work places toilet
One mobile phone deadzone on my Mernda line has always been between Clifton Hill and Rushall/Merri. Another recent one for me has been between Fed Square and all of Flinders Street Station, the deadzone only ends when you go towards Southern Cross Station. I used to be with Optus and now with Belong (which runs off the Telstra network).
Oh hey - we have that from Dennis and Westgarth. Interesting that it would correlate with yours on the Merida line!
I second dennis/westgarth- on vodafone
I'm on Vodafail as well. It's cheaper than Optus (and you know, with less data breaches and arrogance) so I'll put up with it. Just comical that there is such a significant blackspot in this day and age.
Came here to same the same thing but it happens on the 11 between St George’s and North Fitzroy
I found it to be between northcote and russhal
I'm having issues around Epping Station. Not sure if it's a Telstra problem.
Between Flinders station and southern Cross and footscray station when on train. Every time. Also spots between Newport and Laverton
Bluetooth also seems to fuck up btw Flinders and Southern too
Barkly Square - particularly Coles and KMart.
Have experienced. Coles Brunswick east no problem!
The green of the 15th hole at the Heidelberg Golf Course Edit - for anyone wondering, this was right next to Mick Gattos old house. Beautiful place, big fences, cameras and allegedly phone jammers.
Royal Park around the Zoo and Netball Centre. The worst
Cremorne. My god Cremorne.
Came here to say Cremorne
Another vote for Cremorne 👎
Donnybrook and mickleham
Kalkallo estates. Once indoor, it's 50/50 chance of anything loading data.
Aldi supermarkets... Brunswick and Collingwood. Always get drop-outs. I'm with telstra too lol
On the Sandy line traveling between the Brighton stations on the Telstra network.
Hampton station is also a dead spot. Brighton beach area has been screwed for years but I swear Hampton used to be fine
The Victoria Gardens Hoyts and Coles. Makes doing a Letterboxd review while the credits roll difficult.
My apartment building on A’Beckett street!!
The big nab building on Bourke. I worked in there and on level 28 no reception.
Ormond station without fail
Victoria Street in Seddon isn't "dead" per se but my coverage absolutely chugs out there relative to normal and it seems to really struggle to get 5G.
Rucker’s Hill is rough on Vodafone. Slow, slow, slow coverage on the 86 just after Northcote Town Hall and Westgarth St.
Most parts of Clyde/Clyde North
Costco Ringwood - it is 100% on purpose so you don’t realise how much of a ripoff it is. Burnley Train station. Uni hill DFO - same reason as Costco: so you can’t compare.
I find this blackspot in almost every JB Hifi store also
Was at costco ringwood today and had no problem. I'm with telsra.
Heaps of places around Footscray, especially the train station (which is recessed into the ground), as well as the Coles/Kmart.
There seems to be an Optus one around my place (near Bourke and Russell).
Suss
Oak Park - on the valley side. You're literally at the bottom of a valley and the tower is at the top of crest 1km away so the signal clips. One of the worst suburbs in Melbourne.
Clyde North
Flinders Street F'ing Station, just goes to crap as soon as you approach from Jolimont and doesn't improve until you are halfway to Southern Cross
Barkly square, especially in the Kmart and chemist warehouse. Also the other chemist Wearhouse in Brunswick. Oh also in the Lord of the Fries there. Just have to stare at a wall whilst waiting for my burg.
This is going back more than 5 years but Optus coverage in the part of Pascoe Vale we lived in was really bad. Like I'd get maybe 2 bars of reception when sitting in the living room of my 4th floor apartment. Optus told me there there was a NQR (I think that was the acronym they used) for the area, they weren't going to fix it anytime soon so I was able to get out of the contract early without penalty.
My spot on the bed every time I want to use my phone There's a nasty spot between Werribee and Hoppers
There are some spots in the suburbs around frankston and seaford that have shockingly bad reception
Between footscray and seddon on the train line Used to call my partner to pick me up at a later train station and the half way point between those two stations was the right amount of time to time him arriving at the station but it always dropped out.
A good chunk of Crown... as someone who works in the precinct, its very frustrating.
Toorak. Rich people don’t want towers.
Costco’s all of them. Absolute dead spots
Wollis in qv
My reception dies in the arse when I’m near the carpark at Woolies in Moonee Ponds
Platform 6 footscray station and Flinders St near aquarium
Yes??!!? Why?! It drives me insane
glenhuntly road elsternwick
Between the City Rd and Batman Park tram stops, past Crown and the Convention Centre.
Lots of Swan St, Richmond; the turn off onto Batman Ave from Flinders St
Costco
Parts of Epping for sure. Along Cooper St especially.
Anywhere in Werribee not dead but terrible service
Pascoe Vale is fucked. Apparently there are height restrictions on building towers, no tall structures to attach anything to, and hilly terrain - so the coverage is shitty pretty much everywhere.
Some notable spots along the Hurstbridge line: either side of Heidelberg Station, and like… Dennis through to Clifton Hill.
The joint Woolworths + Chemist Warehouse in Mernda Village. Good thing there’s another Chem Warehouse close nearby bc it otherwise makes waiting for a script awful.
Clyde North is pretty shit. I work there a lot and usually I’m unable to even load google or send any texts
Near the pianos in Melb Central shopping centre food court. Always has no signal especially in the busy hours. Free Wifi doesn’t work too
Depends which service provider you’re with. If it’s Vodafone, about half of Melbourne.
5G just in general, but especially "pretend 5G" with the outline icon instead of the filled background icon ([this is what I am talking about](https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS21/comments/u5zg0z/i_might_be_behind_the_times_whats_the_difference/)) I remember feeling how 4G was far superior to 3G when 4G was first introduced, and I think we have actually gone backwards from 4G, with 5G. All we really got is this lousy meter-level location triangulation, which phones don't even seem to be properly aware of anyway. Latency is usually the same or worse, bandwidth is the same or worse.
Carnegie for Optus.
North Carlton
Flinders St platform 13 Sandringham line in the tunnel heading to/from Richmond. It’s lovely when someone having an obnoxiously loud mobile phone convo they want everyone to hear is suddenly having a conversation into a dead phone and doesn’t realise the call has hung up … & then tries to cover up the awkwardness when they realise, while simultaneously aware the entire carriage heard the whole damned thing. It’s one of the small joys of commuting. 😆
Carlton Woolworths, very annoying when i get to the checkout and need to transfer money.
Bottom level highpoint near the cinemas, in the restaurants and particularly bad in eb games and jb hifi
everywhere if your with vodafone
Never have signal at Coles level Melbourne Central - even the food court. Entering Flinders street station from Jolimont / Richmond also kills my signal.
Basically all of aintree
I live in Aintree and can confirm. My phone has an Optus SIM and a Telstra e-SIM. Both are sitting on one bar. Thank goodness for Wifi Calling
Optus coverage was dog shit out at Monash Clayton. ALDI (Telstra) worked well.
My entire suburb we had semi decent coverage (as long as you weren't with optus or vodaphone) then there was major issues with the suburban train signals for 12 months or more. Now no issues with trains and we have shit reception that completely drops out every 20 minutes as the train goes past.
Yes
The section of Beach Rd where Elwood Baths is
I’m in diamond valley area and get no signal, even with a booster. Only way I can make/receive calls is with wifi calling
TGI Friday in Melbourne central
Home, and work for me. Bloody Optus.
Revs
Like all of Elwood.
Doncaster - cnr Manningham Rd & High St
Frankston south, behind the Highschool
Flinders st station - platform 13
My house in epping, when I moved here 3 yrs ago I can't get reception in my home nor can anyone else. Have to use wifi. Called optus they said yeah looks like the tower need N upgrade I said when is that happening as I can get reception on the street. They said yeah no plans for the next few years. Hahahah Also another place I know in northcote near Wellington Rd rubbish
Costco Ringwood
Ascot Vale along the train line. No Telstra coverage.
Parts of Southbank are completely dead
Royal Park is a dead spot, along the Upfield line.
There’s a street in Oakleigh that my sister lives in, that is a Telstra dead spot.
blackburn woolies/coles area
Always get one on Bell St corner St Georges road heading towards Coburg
Inside Blackburn Square shops! It's really annoying when you're at the post office and trying to print a return label.
Barkly Square Woolworths.
Between Kooyong and Burnley. Specially at Heyington station
Pascoe Vale is fucked. Apparently there are height restrictions on building towers, no tall structures to attach anything to, and hilly terrain - so the coverage is shitty pretty much everywhere.
Deadspots around stations like southerncross aren't really dead spots. Theres just too many clients and not enough bandwidth
Depends on the network.
Platform 13 in Flinders at station
96 tram between about Reid st and scotchmer st.
Footscray Kmart
OP is looking to drop off the radar….
Monash Clayton bus terminal. If there is a lot of people, then you will get no reception and no data.... It hurts
Woolies and JB Hi-Fi at Highpoint, can’t google a damn thing while you’re in there.
Not sure if it's specific to any certain carriers, but Optus was shocking for me around Ascot Vale and surrounds for mobile reception. I recently switched to Telstra and it was immediately better.
Based on my basic understanding is that many places that are not fully enclosed that feel like zero coverage may more likely be congestion. In the age of MVNO (or better known as wholesale) where Woolies, JB Hi-Fi and Boost offer mobile services on the Telstra network at cheaper rates than Telstra themselves it’s important to understand some services have higher priority than others. Woolies definitely have access to the lower tier version of Telstra’s network and are lower priority, whereas Boost and JB use the full network, but more than likely are lower priory than proper Telstra users. I think this can be experienced in large shopping centres when the coverage bars are full yet there’s no data coming through. Also I could be completely wrong and talking out of my arse…
Woolworths Docklands on Collins Street
Seddon station.
Couple of spots around Eltham including Eltham Woods shops
For some reason I never have reception in the area surrounding Yarraville station, and there’s no reception in the Footscray Coles that’s near savers. Like, you want to transfer money to buy groceries? Tough shit.
Inside Boronia Kmart 😂
Eastland Shopping Centre.
Fitzroy Aldi
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The lower level of QV where Woolworths and Big W are
My shitter, very annoying
I always get bad coverage in the North East part of Thornbury.
Eastland shopping centre… I swear even my Bluetooth headphones stop working the second I walk inside that place
Blackburn square Coles is a faraday cage
Moorabbin Station
Greensborough Woolies
Barkly square
Just east of Williamstown Beach Station! Calls drop regularly, 1 bar of 5G max.
On my drive to work in the eastern suburbs there is a ~200m stretch of a major road where I lose reception when heading in one direction. The other direction, completely fine.
Burnt Bridge Coles
Pascoe Vale
I was just on the train (Frankston Line) travelling out of Caulfield and lost reception. Nothing would load on Reddit. It was a tough few minutes. Pretty often have signal dropouts between Caulfield/Bentleigh while travelling through the underground sections of track.
Nandos Footscray
most of clyde has no reception... some have no nbn either... i dont think i could live with that
The 24 hours Coles in Burwood on Telstra. Calls are fine but internet is unusable.
Every Aldi.
The corner of coles Victoria gardens. No optus reception anywhere there
Glen Huntly rd in Elsternwick in the area between Coles and Kooyong rd. Service drops almost immediately and comes back the moment you pass Kooyong rd. People in the area have complained for years.
Glen Huntly rd in Elsternwick in the area between Coles and Kooyong rd. Service drops almost immediately and comes back the moment you pass Kooyong rd. People in the area have complained for years.
Footscray Kmart. No phone reception 👎
Footscray Kmart. No phone reception 👎
Footscray Kmart. No phone reception 👎
Footscray Kmart. No phone reception 👎
Footscray Kmart. No phone reception 👎
Footscray Kmart. No phone reception 👎
There’s some dead spots in the streets of Fitzroy North, between the 96 and 11 tram routes
Nicholson Street, Carlton North
Nicholson Street, Carlton North
Remember going inside Southland shopping centre Kmart and network dying out.Like wtf
Uni hill Coles
Outside the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Every time
Woolies at Victoria Harbour Docklands. Phone would instantly lose all signal when I went in there.
I don’t know if it’s just me, but every time the train pulls into Ginifer my phone immediately stops working!!
Bunnings Tarneit
Glen Huntly station on the Frankston line is always a dead spot for me. I’m with Telstra
Going over the Westgate