Vodaphone and AAPT fit into your 'better in Capital cities and major country
centers only' category.  They don't work at Temora, but will on the Newell
highway and Olympic Way.

 

Optus and Telstra have better coverage.

 

Alan Wilson  

 

From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matthew
Scutter
Sent: Monday, 20 December, 2010 16:12
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Mobile Phone Networks

 

Telstra (NextG) is by far the best for country coverage. Make sure your
phone supports the 850Mhz frequency for 3G (should say NextG on the box or
something similar). I bought a NextG one for 20$ from Dick Smiths.

 

I have a prepaid NextG and a prepaid Optus phone I keep in my glider, along
with my regular Vodaphone phone. Never landed somewhere without coverage on
one of them.

 

You can usually find the coverage maps on the networks website.

http://www.telstra.com.au/mobile/networks/coverage/state.html

http://www.optus.com.au/aboutoptus/About+Optus/Network+Coverage/Optus+Networ
k+Coverage+Maps/NSW

http://www.vodafone.com.au/tools/checker/index.htm

 

~Matthew~

 

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Adam Webb <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi All,

 

I'm looking at changing mobile phone networks. Does anyone know any details
on which networks have best coverage (especially country NSW where I do most
of my XC flying)? I understand that some networks are near useless outside
the CBDs and increase the chance of a long walk after an outlanding.

 

Cheers

 

Adam

 

 


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