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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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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

You can buy proper repeaters. There is also optus

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 2 points 10 months ago

Proper repeaters cost hundreds of dollars. I've seen homemade signal boosters on YouTube which can be made with $30 of parts from Jaycar.

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 1 points 10 months ago

Optus might be out of our price range here. A repeater shouldn’t be too expensive however.

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

Optus internet is terrible I haven't used vodaphone but it can't be worse than optus

[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Vodafone is good enough, mostly. The main advantage is that it's dirt cheap, I'm paying $25 a month for my phone and it's unlimited data. Not fast unlimited, but I don't get fast internet anyway so unlimited is still nice.