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9:16AM Nick Broughall | Vodafone’s expansion of its 3G network goes live in five major regional areas today. The move brings their overall 3G coverage to about 80% of the population. More »
Vodafone’s 3G Network Gets Bumped Up In Regional Areas Today
9:16AM Nick Broughall | Vodafone’s expansion of its 3G network goes live in five major regional areas today. The move brings their overall 3G coverage to about 80% of the population. More » 
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AT&T’s Internal Plans To Fix Their Network
3:00AM Brian Lam | digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_bgcolor = '#f1f8fa'; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/AT_T_s_Internal_Plan_to_Fix_Their_Crap_Network'; AT&T was calling me to set up an interview with their CTO, but all I could hear was garbled noise on my AT&T iPhone. “I can’t really hear you!” I shouted, as if volume would clear the channel. It’s always been like this, in my home in San Francisco. While the howls of iPhone 3G reception issues get louder and louder, I’ve always wondered if it was the network’s fault, as some Swedish scientists and journalists have recently suggested. Maybe it’s just new AT&T customers making the bulk of the noise. From my experience, the phone isn’t blameless, but the network is a major part of the issue.
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8:55AM Nick Broughall | When it comes to mobile coverage in Australia, nobody comes close to Telstra’s NextG service. Sure, it’s not perfect, but it does offer a lot more coverage than any other network.
For the moment. Optus last week announced that it plans to take on Telstra in the coverage stakes, targeting 98% of the Australian population. They’re spending a whopping $315 million between now and December 2009 to build at least another 750 base stations across the country. Their target is to extend their coverage area by 400,000 square kilometres.
On top of the coverage increase, they’re also in the process of boosting their 3G networks to 7.2Mbps HSPA on the 900MHz spectrum, with plans to expand that to 42Mbps by mid 2010. Which should be the perfect speed and coverage for a 3G iPhone, don’t you think?
The full press release is below:
[Optus]
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Optus Takes On NextG – Targets 98% Mobile Network Coverage For Australia
8:55AM Nick Broughall | When it comes to mobile coverage in Australia, nobody comes close to Telstra’s NextG service. Sure, it’s not perfect, but it does offer a lot more coverage than any other network.
For the moment. Optus last week announced that it plans to take on Telstra in the coverage stakes, targeting 98% of the Australian population. They’re spending a whopping $315 million between now and December 2009 to build at least another 750 base stations across the country. Their target is to extend their coverage area by 400,000 square kilometres.
On top of the coverage increase, they’re also in the process of boosting their 3G networks to 7.2Mbps HSPA on the 900MHz spectrum, with plans to expand that to 42Mbps by mid 2010. Which should be the perfect speed and coverage for a 3G iPhone, don’t you think?
The full press release is below:
[Optus]
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