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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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[–] MuffinHeeler@aussie.zone 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

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

By that definition wouldn't the aldi network be equivalent to Vodafone?

[–] MuffinHeeler@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago

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).