Australian coverage of 1800mhz band?

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LT - 29 Jan 2005 21:57 GMT

Hi, I was wondering what coverage for the 1800mhz band is like around
australia? I'm wondering about the possibility of getting a phone that
doesn't support 900mhz band, as I'll probably be moving overseas (to canada)
at the end of the year, and they user 850mhz over there.

I know there are couple of quad-band phones around the place, but I was
hoping to get an xda mini, which is only tri-band.

Any help would be appreciated... Thanks.

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John Henderson - 29 Jan 2005 23:10 GMT

> Hi, I was wondering what coverage for the 1800mhz band is like
> around australia? I'm wondering about the possibility of
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> I know there are couple of quad-band phones around the place,
> but I was hoping to get an xda mini, which is only tri-band.

Within cities and suburbs, 1800 mHz coverage varies between good
and non-existent. In rural areas, it's very rare.

A 1800-only phone will not work on the Telstra network
(Australia's biggest GSM network), due to a network
configuration "feature". I have a couple of devices (Voxson
and Wavecom) that I can restrict to single band, and do network
monitoring. I find that the 1800 mHz Telstra cells become
visible only after a call is commenced on 900 mHz.

John

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TA 2000 - 30 Jan 2005 03:17 GMT

John Henderson Wrote:

> Within cities and suburbs, 1800 mHz coverage varies between good
> and non-existent. In rural areas, it's very rare.
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> John

Yes Telstra 1800mhz coverage doesn't even come up on Net Monitor, yes
Voda's and Optus's 1800mhz does.

Telstra's 1800mhz extends in few country areas too. Mainly the bigger
country towns.

Vodafone's 1800mhz coverage is very limited, in Adelaide at limited to
CBD only.

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thegoons - 30 Jan 2005 01:09 GMT

buy an elcheapo Panasonic A100 on Vodafone, triband

> Hi, I was wondering what coverage for the 1800mhz band is like around
> australia? I'm wondering about the possibility of getting a phone that
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> Any help would be appreciated... Thanks.

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Mark - 30 Jan 2005 04:52 GMT

> Hi, I was wondering what coverage for the 1800mhz band is like around
> australia? I'm wondering about the possibility of getting a phone that
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> Any help would be appreciated... Thanks.

Get a vodafone $40 chuckaway phone.
Buy a decent phone when you move.

-mark

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