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Who is responsible for requesting/issuing cell phone coverage upgrades? (aussie.zone)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The city I live in, Port Macquarie, has awful cell phone reception basically everywhere (I'm on the Vodafone network).

Is this something I can bring up with the local council, or elected representative?

I can't believe I live in a city of 50,000 people and I'm unable to receive phone calls from my house.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It's the responsibility of your provider.

Cellular coverage isn't a public service so while you might be able to get your MP to apply some pressure, it's an entirely commercial decision.

I'm on the Vodafone network

InB4 the "well there's your problem" comments.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do you think there's anything I can do about it?

I'm not going back to Telstra, they can get fucked. I would rather no cell phone coverage than give Telstra a cent.

I've been considering making my own signal booster, but I don't know how well it will work, or even if it will.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Have you considered Aldi Mobile? They use the telstra network with some towers excluded. I don't know if there's a way to look up what towers are excluded, but I was under the impression that it was remote towers where no competitors service.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

By that definition wouldn't the aldi network be equivalent to Vodafone?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Sorry I know this is a super old comment, but I was browsing my comment history.

Australia has 3 networks that actually build and own physical towers. Telstra, Optus and Vodafone. Any other network is a reseller of one of these 3.

Optus seems to be the most common that is resold. I know belong and Aldi resell Telstra but I don't know any that resell Vodafone (could he wrong).