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#2652 7-Jan-2004 19:45

This going a little off topic on T610 unbranding, but... A couple of times I've sent an e-mail complaining about coverage in certain areas around Wellington. We have to admit the city is beautiful, but all these hills around don't help mobile coverage.

In both occasions they replied saying they had knowledge of problems and were planning to deploy more cell sites. I've noticed that in the last few months the reception is a little bit better around here where I live. Of course in some places is still bad (anywhere down Onslow Rd and Cashmere Ave), but I'm only driving through these places. And the road is so narrow that I'm not supposed to be on the phone anyway.

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#2653 7-Jan-2004 21:28

While it's obvious we are always going to have deadspots around Wgtn due to the terrain the biggest annoyance is things like the motorway, Ngauranga interchange and SH2 to the Hutt. Vodafone used to have great coverage with virtually nill chance of dropped calls until they reconfigured the Rossmore house site on Molesworth St about 2 years ago with new panels and moved the north facing panels due to another floor being added to the building directly in front. Since then the coverage between there and the interchange has been crap, there is no reason the new panels shouldn't offer the same coverage but they don't..:-(

The people of Seatoun must be happy though, I noticed a brand new Vodafone site on a lamp post just through the cutting last week on the Seatoun side (wasn't commissioned though). I remember BellSouth promising coverage there and in Berhampore by mid 1996, both sites have finally arrived 6 1/2 years later! :-) We really need to get rid of the resource management act here, 3 UK were deploying around 100-150 new sites per week during November!!

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#2654 8-Jan-2004 02:20

Thats one problem with democracy etc...

Nothing ever gets done coz someone somewhere always has something negative about a proposal and coz its democratic their allowed their oppinion, even if it is ignored in the end.

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#2663 9-Jan-2004 20:37

this is the reason I buy imported phones.
all I wanna know is, why do they have to replace the whole theme and the colours? its just so ugly compared to the normal ones. My guess is that it matches with their wap site, so that users are always feeling like they're in the v-live world, am I right? I heard the firmware was laggy and buggy too. but did they really include alot of useless undeletable pics? thats insane.

They probably made v-live easy to connect to so u can easily see the ringtones/games/wallpapers they have available so they can make some $ off that, but I can't believe their prices, that new tomb raider game costs $7! that game is free on heaps of wap sites.. but people probably dont look cuz v-live is so easy to access.. thats must be their plan, its one of the worst games I've played anyway, feel sorry for anyone who pays for it. They should at least get some multiplayer games cuz lots of v-live phones have bluetooth anyway, such a waste of good technology.

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#2689 11-Jan-2004 14:39

I heard from somebody Vodafone the other day the reason the 6610 isn't officially released over here yet is because it doesn't work properly with Vodafone live. At the end of the day Vodafone are giving a huge market to the parallel importers due to their inability to get new phones to market for a reasonable price when they are new. With the speed new models are coming out now Vodafone are currently offering a very poor range of phones. How long can it possibly take to approve a model for use in New Zealand?

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#2690 11-Jan-2004 14:40

Oops, meant 6600 in my last post.

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#2691 11-Jan-2004 15:03

is that true? I thought 6600 would be most capable. y isnt p800 a vodafone live fone yet?

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#2696 12-Jan-2004 10:13

I don’t know if anybody has noticed that Vodafone is a Mobile phone Network - I can’t remember it making mobile phones or selling mobile phones.

See this post at GSM Mobile NZ

http://gsmmobile.co.nz/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=9&sid=90bbf3329f80fe60032d0db8ddefaf58

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#2869 20-Jan-2004 09:48

ok ... a few things ...

The nokia 6600 has been created with a wap version 2.0 which is not compatible with nz vfone yet. different countries are on different versions, and its not possible for every country to approve every phone.

Vodafone live ... if you dont want vodafone live icons all over your screen, its simple ... dont buy a vodafone live phone. There are other phones out there without the vlive branding.
Also, you can still access other wap sites on the phone, you just have to set them up as bookmarks

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#2873 20-Jan-2004 10:28

but I've got a sony ericsson t630 and it's got wap2.0 and it works fine

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#2875 20-Jan-2004 10:35

It depends what country it was installed in because different countries also have different network settings to go along with the wap version

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#2876 20-Jan-2004 10:39

And (not sure about this), perhaps Sony Ericsson's WAP implementation is backward compatible, while Nokia's is not?

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#2877 20-Jan-2004 10:39

mine was factory fresh so there werent any settings on it, just added the vodafone one in and it worked

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#2878 20-Jan-2004 10:42

hey frietasm ... you may be right there, cos it only seems to be nokias at the moment with incompatibility issues

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#2882 20-Jan-2004 12:03

Luckily it seems like all these problems will go away in the future. SE finally got some sense and decided not to customise the T630 (See my T630 post). :D

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