Vodafone hangs up on NSW towns

[Ext User(Alan Parkington)]

From
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23108175-15306,00.html

VODAFONE customers in parts of rural NSW have been left without mobile phone
service for over 24 hours with no end in sight.

The mobile provider said that attempts to close the coverage gap had been
delayed by difficulties securing parts to repair the link.

Vodafone today played down the impact of the outage, with company spokesman
Dominic Hilton-Foster saying the number of people affected was "very, very
minor" but declined to offer details.

"In the region, (the network covers) a reasonably large area, but it follows
a corridor of road that is in a very, very low populated area of Australia.
It's a reasonable size of location but that translates to small number of
customers," Mr Hilton-Foster said.

The two biggest towns affected by the outages are Balranald and Robinvale
South, which are home to a total of around 5500 residents. The faulty link
has also left Vodafone customers using a segment of the Sturt Highway in the
area without coverage, the carrier said.

[Ext User(John Phillips)]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:38:27 GMT "Alan Parkington"
<alan.parkington@team.telstra.com> wrote:

> VODAFONE customers in parts of rural NSW have been left without
> mobile phone service for over 24 hours with no end in sight.


Confirms what we all know - in Oz Vodaphone = shit.

[Ext User(Simon Templar)]

John Phillips wrote:
> Confirms what we all know - in Oz Vodaphone = shit.

Vodaphone does not exist you wanker. It is Vodafone!


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[Ext User(John Phillips)]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:59:32 +1100 Simon Templar <usenet@vk3xem.net>
wrote:

> Vodaphone does not exist you wanker. It is Vodafone!

So what?

[Ext User(GlennP)]

Alan Parkington wrote:
> From
> http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23108175-15306,00.html
>
> VODAFONE customers in parts of rural NSW have been left without mobile phone
> service for over 24 hours with no end in sight.
>
> The mobile provider said that attempts to close the coverage gap had been
> delayed by difficulties securing parts to repair the link.
>
> Vodafone today played down the impact of the outage, with company spokesman
> Dominic Hilton-Foster saying the number of people affected was "very, very
> minor" but declined to offer details.
>
> "In the region, (the network covers) a reasonably large area, but it follows
> a corridor of road that is in a very, very low populated area of Australia.
> It's a reasonable size of location but that translates to small number of
> customers," Mr Hilton-Foster said.
>
> The two biggest towns affected by the outages are Balranald and Robinvale
> South, which are home to a total of around 5500 residents. The faulty link
> has also left Vodafone customers using a segment of the Sturt Highway in the
> area without coverage, the carrier said.
>
>

I honestly don't think it will matter too much. Will anybody even notice?
Vodafone has very poor coverage even when there are no network faults &
in Metropolitan areas too not just out in the sticks.
A guy I do some work with has Vodafone & around the Newcastle, Central
Coast & hunter areas of NSW his phone has "no service" (is out of range)
more than it's in. Got me stuffed how he runs a business with it & why
he doesn't change carriers.

[Ext User(thegoons)]

"Simon Templar" <usenet@vk3xem.net> wrote in message
news:5vu19pF1nf8i4U1@mid.individual.net...
> John Phillips wrote:
>> Confirms what we all know - in Oz Vodaphone = shit.
>
> Vodaphone does not exist you wanker. It is Vodafone!

Whatever the spelling, a half-baked pommy outfit



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[Ext User(John Phillips)]

On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:56:40 +1100 "thegoons" <thegoons@bigpond.com>
wrote:

> > Vodaphone does not exist you wanker. It is Vodafone!
>
> Whatever the spelling, a half-baked pommy outfit

With half backed septic spelling.

[Ext User(Snapper)]

Alan Parkington wrote...

>VODAFONE customers in parts of rural NSW have been left without mobile phone
>service for over 24 hours with no end in sight.

I hope, Alan, that in the spirit of balanced "reporting" that you will
also be "reporting" on Telstra failures of this nature.

Or is that asking too much?



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[Ext User(John Henderson)]

GlennP wrote:

> I honestly don't think it will matter too much. Will anybody
> even notice?

I certainly noticed yesterday en route from Adelaide to
Canberra. There was no Voda coverage from past Mildura until
about 5 km from Hay.

Voda normally has 100% coverage on the Sturt Hwy as part of its
highway coverage contract. This provides emergency 112
coverage for all GSM users across significant areas with no
other coverage.

John

[Ext User(Paul Day)]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:43:55 John Henderson may have written:
> Voda normally has 100% coverage on the Sturt Hwy as part of its
> highway coverage contract. This provides emergency 112 coverage for
> all GSM users across significant areas with no other coverage.

Surely NextG covers it? It has coverage "everywhere you need it (tm)"!

PD

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[Ext User(Paul Day)]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:38:27 Alan Parkington may have written:
> From
> http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23108175-15306,00.html

How come the only news you ever regurgitate:
- Telstra doing great
- Other telcos doing bad

Seems a little unbalanced?

PD

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[Ext User(John Henderson)]

Paul Day wrote:

> Surely NextG covers it? It has coverage "everywhere you need
> it (tm)"!

Maybe it does, but NextG coverage is of no use to anyone without
an 850 MHz UMTS phone (even in an emergency).

John

[Ext User(John Henderson)]

Paul Day wrote:

> How come the only news you ever regurgitate:
> - Telstra doing great
> - Other telcos doing bad
>
> Seems a little unbalanced?

When you read the story you see that the fault is with a Telstra
microwave link. But Alan carefully cut that part out.

Yes, Alan's usual lack of balance continues.

John

[Ext User(James Bell)]

Nice selective CTRL+C CTRL+V'ing, FUCKWIT.

Pity about the Telstra-link-dying-in-the-arse bit.

Alan Parkington wrote:
> From
> http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23108175-15306,00.html
>

[Ext User(Michael)]

"John Phillips" <flatulantdingo@deadspam.com> wrote in message
news:20080125222123.71d08d22@linux-k6os.site...
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:38:27 GMT "Alan Parkington"
> <alan.parkington@team.telstra.com> wrote:
>
>> VODAFONE customers in parts of rural NSW have been left without
>> mobile phone service for over 24 hours with no end in sight.
>
>
> Confirms what we all know - in Oz Vodaphone = shit.

they keep costs down by lowering their standards

[Ext User(Paul Day)]

On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:54:07 Michael may have written:
> > Confirms what we all know - in Oz Vodaphone = shit.
>
> they keep costs down by lowering their standards

Where-as Telstra just does the latter without the former? ;)

PD

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