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Cellular Phone Forum / Country Specific / Australian Group / June 2004Orange upgrades
I just got my Orange bill for the month, which included a notice that Orange are spending $35 million to upgrade over 50% of their base stations between June and August to prevent congestion. Does anyone know what they're actually doing to the base stations? ie. adding more antennas or adding equipment in the comms box? Thanks Graham. >I just got my Orange bill for the month, which included a notice that >Orange are spending $35 million to upgrade over 50% of their base stations >between June and August to prevent congestion. Does anyone know what >they're actually doing to the base stations? ie. adding more antennas or >adding equipment in the comms box? A number of months ago they made an announcement. Take a look at its media releases I guess. In fact, take a look at <http://www.google.com.au/search?q=cache:AMMZnTtkL2oJ:www.australianit.com.au/art icles/0,7204,8471567%255E15320%255E%255Enbv%255E,00.html+orange+1XRTT&hl=en> From memory, it's about upgrading some of teh base stations to CDMA 1XRTT. All of the newer handsets support 1XRTT. It means supper for higher data speeds and the ability to squeeze more voice calls in. > >I just got my Orange bill for the month, which included a notice that > >Orange are spending $35 million to upgrade over 50% of their base stations [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > A number of months ago they made an announcement. Take a look at its > media releases I guess. In fact, take a look at <http://www.google.com.au/search?q=cache:AMMZnTtkL2oJ:www.australianit.com.a u/articles/0,7204,8471567%255E15320%255E%255Enbv%255E,00.html+orange+1XRTT&h l=en> > From memory, it's about upgrading some of teh base stations to CDMA > 1XRTT. All of the newer handsets support 1XRTT. It means supper for > higher data speeds and the ability to squeeze more voice calls in. Yawn. All of Telstra's CDMA bases are now 1xRTT Yawn, Orange, further and further behind > > >I just got my Orange bill for the month, which included a notice that > > >Orange are spending $35 million to upgrade over 50% of their base [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > A number of months ago they made an announcement. Take a look at its > > media releases I guess. In fact, take a look at <http://www.google.com.au/search?q=cache:AMMZnTtkL2oJ:www.australianit.com.a u/articles/0,7204,8471567%255E15320%255E%255Enbv%255E,00.html+orange+1XRTT&h > l=en> > > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Yawn, Orange, further and further behind Yawn, Fanboi... At least Orange are enhancing their capabilities rather than just their share price... > > > >I just got my Orange bill for the month, which included a notice that > > > >Orange are spending $35 million to upgrade over 50% of their base [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > > A number of months ago they made an announcement. Take a look at its > > > media releases I guess. In fact, take a look at <http://www.google.com.au/search?q=cache:AMMZnTtkL2oJ:www.australianit.com.a u/articles/0,7204,8471567%255E15320%255E%255Enbv%255E,00.html+orange+1XRTT&h > > l=en> > > > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > At least Orange are enhancing their capabilities rather than just their > share price... Hahah, Orange are enhancing their capabilities by adding 1xrtt? Telstra ALREADY have 1xrtt! Does Orange have push-to-talk? Nope! Telstra, further and further ahead > > > > >I just got my Orange bill for the month, which included a notice that > > > > >Orange are spending $35 million to upgrade over 50% of their base [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > > > A number of months ago they made an announcement. Take a look at its > > > > media releases I guess. In fact, take a look at <http://www.google.com.au/search?q=cache:AMMZnTtkL2oJ:www.australianit.com.a u/articles/0,7204,8471567%255E15320%255E%255Enbv%255E,00.html+orange+1XRTT&h > > > l=en> > > > > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Hahah, Orange are enhancing their capabilities by adding 1xrtt? > Telstra ALREADY have 1xrtt! Are you that blinkered and/or brain-washed that you cannot even comprehend that a company's capacity to enhance their own capabilities is an absolute value, not relative to what whatever a company up the road might be doing? Uncle Ziggy sure did a job on you... > Does Orange have push-to-talk? Nope! Orange customers will just have to cry themselves to sleep over that major deficit. Assuming of course that they can't borrow their children's walkie-talkies and experience this amazing new technology first hand... > Telstra, further and further ahead Telstra account holders, further and further behind. > ie. adding more antennas or > adding equipment in the comms box? Hopefully doing something up upgrade the coverage to something even remotely resembling coverage in the Newcastle and Lower Hunter areas. At the moment what they provide is just a token effort to say they cover Newcastle, but it's got more holes than any of the other networks. >Hopefully doing something up upgrade the coverage to something even remotely >resembling coverage in the Newcastle and Lower Hunter areas. At the moment >what they provide is just a token effort to say they cover Newcastle, but >it's got more holes than any of the other networks. I believe that two towers are being added - chances are that won't be in Newcastle. >I believe that two towers are being added - chances are that won't be >in Newcastle. It's four new towers...double the chances! ;) Graham. >It's four new towers...double the chances! ;) Yes, it is 4 new base stations AND 2 new voice mail systems. I wonder why they need 2 new voice mail systems? The announcement on the ASX web site dated 23/01/2004 states that all of this was meant to start in 4 to 6 weeks... hmmm! > >It's four new towers...double the chances! ;) > > Yes, it is 4 new base stations AND 2 new voice mail systems. I wonder > why they need 2 new voice mail systems? They have piss-all customers so that is a mystery |
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