Telstra's Next G Network reception — Your Say: Insight - Communications

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Telstra's Next G Network reception — Your Say

By Joseph Hanlon, CNET.com.au
January 09, 2008
URL: http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/communications/soa/Telstra-s-Next-G-Network-reception-mdash-Your-Say/0,139023754,339284968,00.htm

Attention regional Australia! Contact us with details of Next G black-spots and areas of limited reception and we'll update the map below to indicate the regions worst affected by the CDMA shutdown.

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Battle-stations everyone: Telstra's CDMA network is set to shutdown on 28 January and all current Telstra customers using CDMA will have to switch to the Next G service to remain connected.

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Since the announcement of the shutdown there have been grumblings and speculation about the inadequacies of the Next G network for providing regional Australians with a reliable mobile phone service.

But here at CNET.com.au we don't deal in rumour and speculation; we're all about cold hard facts and, since we're also a bunch of soft-handed city-slickers, we are calling on our friends in the bush to help us piece together the actual on-the-ground experience of what the switch from CDMA to Next G is really like.

Has your ability to use your mobile phone suffered? Has it improved? When you bought your new Next G handset did you choose one from Telstra's "blue tick" list?

We'd like to hear from anyone who has made the switch either by posting on our forums or by replying in the talkback below. Be sure to tell us your location and the model of phone you are using so we can track the successes and failings of the Next G network on the map above.