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.
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.
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.
By that definition wouldn’t the aldi network be equivalent to Vodafone?
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).