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Who is responsible for requesting/issuing cell phone coverage upgrades? (aussie.zone)
submitted 10 months ago by Zozano@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone
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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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[–] Treevan@aussie.zone 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'd probably search the Whirlpool forums for similar threads. If they have no guarantee on quality of service, then shitty service is probably enough.

I use Aldi because Telstra, thanks to their dominance is the only one that works well enough. The phone also plays a big part in it, I run Graphene on the 'a' models (plus other cheaper phones prior), and other people I work with can get better reception than I, using the same provider but with their flagship phones. Next time you buy a phone, see if you can review the modem in it.

And to top that off, I get no reception at all where I live. Besides the fucking annoyance of getting 'text message' verifications which drive me up the wall, not having the phone working gets quite relaxing after a while. I turned off wi-fi calling when my phone finally had it because the shock of it ringing was too much.

[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't remember any phone reviews ever mentioning the signal, do you know of any that do?

[–] Treevan@aussie.zone 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nope. But there would be a difference in components in cheap versus expensive, perhaps even how the aerial is situated inside phone?

A guy I worked with had an iphone 4 on the same provider as me and sometimes he would get reception where we were provided a satellite phone in a deep valley. That phone was an absolute beast, we still talk about it 7 years later as it got us out of trouble a few times. Our job keeps us outside of mobile reception and there is a difference between each phone on site even when they are all running Telstra or resellers. The Optus and Vodaphone people suffer more than us.

[–] Starayo@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

There are absolutely differences in signal quality in phones, but nobody ever mentions it because the equipment needed to properly test it is extremely costly and technical.

It's one of the things the LTT Labs are trying to set up to do. RF shielded test generator and a spectrum analyzer and generator... The spectrum analyzer by itself costs upwards of $100k USD.

So hopefully, eventually, you'll be able to see signal quality metrics from at least one place.