Telstra's blue tick phones

myself and a friend with our mobiles whent to the country to test our phones he the next g mine cdma we got 30 ks out of perth on the brookton hwy and his stopped recieving and could not ring out mine continued working all the way to brookton in western australia. and iam told the next g is better? i don't think so.

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Working in the mining industry, I necessarily spend a considerable amount of my time engaged in field work, usually in remote locations. Since 2005 I have been quite satisfied with the coverage afforded me by the CDMA network throughout rural QLD and NSW. Mostly I use SMS to communicate from remote sites, but also for voice calls where reception permits. The coverage achieved by the CDMA network has been a remarkably good experience for me, and I have been regularly astonished at the strange places I have sometimes been able to connect. My boss and one of my colleagues both switched to Next G during 2007, and neither of them has achieved anything like the reception I still continue to enjoy on the CDMA network. My boss has a blue tick model and a booster aerial, but still can't match my Nokia 6255 for reception even within some country towns, let alone in the field where my phone performs exceptionally well. In fact, my experiences with Next G so far, and indeed for dealing with Telstra in general, can be summed up in one word - PATHETIC!!! Please Mr Rudd and Mr Conroy, don't let Telstra pull the plug on us while they still have so much to do before Next G is anywhere near equivalent to the existing CDMA service.

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Senator Conroy will make an announcement come 16th Jan - for sure. What happens if the CXDMA is NOT closed down on the 28th Jan?

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WOOPS ! The decision by Senator Conroy will be made on or before the 21st January (according to ACMA)

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We moved over from CDMA to the Next G at the end of 2005, it was the worst mistake. Not only did we end up with inferior coverage, despite buying phones recommended by Telstra they now have the blue tick phones which we will have to upgrade to even though we are 1yr into a 2yr contract with these Next G phones. Essentially they've ripped us off. There is no way they are ready to close the CDDMA network.

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I have an i-mate SP3i am I going to be able to use it after the switch? I am very happy with it.

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Summedup Next G =NBG After 6 momths & 3 ng phones [2 blue tick] I still cannot get telstra much talked about' like for ' like handheld reception in areas where I could get cdma &yet they are still claimtng they are giving "like for like'

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One would think that only an hours drive out of Brisbane a 'better than in other parts of the world network' would in fact work. But around Fernvale the none of the networks are much good.

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I have an LG TU500. I Purchased it almost as soon as the next G phones were available. I live in Mid Northern Victoria, near the Murray River and cannot claim any problems sending or receiving calls. What I have found offensive, is despite the fact the phone comes with a fully functional Camera and Video capability, I was penalized for requesting Pre Paid, by having the disk and Lead required to download anything I wanted to keep in the way of pictures or videos, without this fact ever being brought to my attention. Not long after I purchased the LG TU500, mobile phone, I tried to work out how to transfer my Pictures and Videos, only to find I had to purchase a Bluetooth product to achieve this. Not being any the wiser, I proceeded with that purchase but was unable to achieve the process, so in desperation, I returned to the store where I purchased the LG TU500 mobile phone, to be told the lead and disc should have been in the box with the phone. I returned home, looked in the box to find absolutely nothing, other than the battery charger. I took the box back to the store, and when the young lad looked in the box and saw the paperwork for Pre Paid, it was then I was informed of all of the above. I was never told this was the case when I purchased the phone, WHY! …… What next, will we be buying cars, driving them home, and finding the spare wheel and necessary tools aren't included? This kind of scamming has to stop. Customers should be fully informed by the sales staff about any purchase they make. People can’t be expected to be experts in all things, they have to trust others, and should be able to, but this is where the scum who demand these immoral acts be perpetrated upon their customers, all in the evil pursuit of the almighty, immoral dollar, and to hell with the inconvenience and hardship it may cause the customer, are totally abusing that trust. In my case, had this low act been pointed out at the time of purchase, I’d have simply asked what the extra items cost, and happily paid for them, just so I had a complete product. Instead, nothing was said, so it’s fair to assume this was because the sales person either approved of or was ashamed of what they were doing. Accessories are one thing, but to remove items from an already packaged product in what can only be seen as a kind of blackmail, to force customers to choose a more expensive product or service, whether they can afford it or not, is simply immoral, it’s absolutely unacceptable, just as the prices we in this country are paying for the worst communications system in the western world. My home phone costs more than my connection to the Internet. It cost me much more than my calls before my calls are added. All this is because those who own all this so called modern technology, (most of which is over 40 years old, and I should know because I saw it all way back in the late 1960’s being tested in the Telecom Research Laboratories in Melbourne) are manipulating things so that we have to pay for TV, or suffer the endless rubbish we’re served up on Free TV. Then there’s intolerably slow Internet connections, unless we pay the worlds highest price for anything acceptable. And now we have the deliberate manipulation by the Mobile Phone industry in connection with our communication giants, removing items such as those in my case, to force us all onto the plans they want us on, so they can make even more obscenely high profits. When we purchase a Phone a Car, or any similarly complex product, we should be fully informed of all the options, but it seems to me, these facts are deliberately denied us, because of the pressure on sales staff, all the way to CEO’s from the greedy, lazy shareholders, to increase profits. Enough is enough of this immoral, if not illegal behavior; if this kind of thing isn’t stopped, I for one will leave my money where it is, and to hell with this country’s economy. I’

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I am a Cave Diver I travel to remote areas of Australia to cave dive .I had very good coverage out on the Nullabor on my CDMA.. The CDMA phone served me well.. I covered my health and saftey and emergency requirements I crossed to next G with the promise that the coverage woud be the same .... NO WAY Telstra you have ripped me of for the two year contract for my phone s and now you have introduced a Blue Tick phone ... Next G is the biggest rip off... I now have to purchase new phones and what will they give me for protection next time I dive in a remote location.... Do I feel like suing Telstra ? You bet I do.... Very disapointed long standing customer

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I am an interstate truck driver travelling between Adelaide and Perth every week my CDMA phone was brilliant now i have had to change to NEXT G and promised the earth. I have had 2 NEXT G phones LG TU500 and that was useless i could see the tower and not get service now i have a NOKIA 6120 which is margianly better but telstras NEXT G network is nothing short of a joke. We are constantly being told that NEXT G is imporoving and that it is as good a coverage as CDMA well i have not seen any improvment at all. In my opion the coverage of NEXT G is not even close to being as good as CDMA. To make matters worse now telstra have introdused the BLUE TICK for better rural coverage what a joke. There was a goverment enquirey into the NEXT G network and HANDSETS there is 6 handsets that are well below standard but neither telstra or the government will tell you which 6 they are. I have been a loyal Telsta customer for 20 years and i am Very Disapointed in the new network.

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i live on a farm aboout 300 km east of perth. i live in a valley and we get next to no reception! we have tried to negotiate with telstra and they wont budge. we have a very cheap cdma phone at the moment and that is about the best reception we will get with any phone. my brother has recently purchased a telstra next g tu 550, and that doesnt even work any better than our cdma! now they are going to cut our cdma and make us pay for a new mobile! ????? why are they FORCING us to change when it is not going to benefit us, infact it going to be waste of money if it doesnt even work as well as our mobile at the moment!

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CNET how on earth could you write a story about Blue Tick phones and not test the reception? You would need to be out of the office for no more than 2-3 hours to reach areas with marginal reception. I bought an N95 (second hand, thankfully) because it has a blue tick - and good reviews from people like you - only to discover that it has worse reception than my colleague's phones (Motorola 3xx and Nokia 6120). Worst of all, it doesn't have an external antenna connection so I can't improve things that way. Our office is in the hills behind Byron Bay, idyllic in every way except that it's in a NextG blackspot. Contact with Telstra and Nokia staff has produced lots of soothing noises and absolutely no action.

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Your review claims that a pop-up antenna is "External". This is idiotic. An External Antenna is one you mount outdoors and plug into the phone via a cable and socket. For many in the bush this feature is essential. Your reviewer seems to have no idea...

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Yeah- we were sold these toy ZTE850s a bit over a year ago by a bloke who rang from Telstra in Adelaide & we live in Central Qld- he told us from reading his map in Adelaide that we were "suffocated" (he meant saturated) with reception.Well, we were suffocated all right- the CDMA absolutely crucified next G. And now in all their wisdom, they're turning off the ISDN internet we use because we can't get broadband (can't get wireless next G either- remember?) Overall, a person could become extremely irritated & disillusioned with all this.

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Well, i did a search to find out which is the best next G mobile to use in rural areas! I am not happy with our LG Tu500 which has limited service plus it chucks wobblies randomly by not being able to hear the caller. The caller hears you. The car kit has never worked either, powers up & thats it! Also i have a Jasmin Imate which died **** from the beginning. Both phones are on a telstra plan and i can't wait until its finished, but there doesn't seem to be any better options out there at all. i purchased a samsung little red phone pre paid & put my sim card in it. Its actually better than the above phones but needs charging every night. One phone call & the battery life disapears quick. I also got sucked into a wireless card which also doesn't work unless i take the laptop to a service area. 40km,s away! Come on Telstra lift your game!!!!We will be back using carrier pigeons soon if you don't! Plus i am so sick of dial up!!! Waiting, waiting, waiting!!No next G service therefore no broadband either!!!!

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