The big Vodafone Auckland upgrade

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#751134 26-Jan-2013 12:39

Great news on my next trip up! Hope for a roll out for the rest of the country

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#751255 26-Jan-2013 17:57

I'll repeat my question in case it got lost in the mix: is there an approximate time over the weekend it goes live or will it come on in stages?

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#751287 26-Jan-2013 19:39

Are other towns cities going to get an upgrade in big blocks like this or just site by site?

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#751292 26-Jan-2013 19:56

Have 2 questions

1) does dual carrier refer to 900 + 2100 or is dual both within 900MHz? (sorry dumb)

2) the map on the link above shows red paint over dunedin but not being a geographist is it the entire dunedin? Does dunedin have 900mhz? (last time w voda feb 2012 i almost died as no 3g reception in any concrete building inc my work and my house so might as well turn the phone off)

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#751296 26-Jan-2013 20:06

What we have today is Dual carrier U2100 43Mbps which covers a lot of Auckland soon we will introduce U900 Dual carrier 43Mbps for Auckland

Dunedin is U2100 today

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#751298 26-Jan-2013 20:08

DjShadow: Are other towns cities going to get an upgrade in big blocks like this or just site by site?

Sorry something we can't answer as of yet

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#751299 26-Jan-2013 20:14

Now to wait for the news my town I left out again.... Lol!

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#751303 26-Jan-2013 20:36

PhantomNVD: Now to wait for the news my town I left out again.... Lol!

This thread is about U900 going live for Auckland not RBI

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#751311 26-Jan-2013 21:33

johnr: What we have today is Dual carrier U2100 43Mbps which covers a lot of Auckland soon we will introduce U900 Dual carrier 43Mbps for Auckland

Dunedin is U2100 today

So, did the 900 MHz DC go ahead today or is it soon? How much of Auckland is actually covered? It is mostly the CBD or are we out to Papakura etc?

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#751322 26-Jan-2013 21:54

hairy1:
johnr: What we have today is Dual carrier U2100 43Mbps which covers a lot of Auckland soon we will introduce U900 Dual carrier 43Mbps for Auckland

Dunedin is U2100 today

So, did the 900 MHz DC go ahead today or is it soon? How much of Auckland is actually covered? It is mostly the CBD or are we out to Papakura etc?

Cheers, Matt.

By the 28th and it's the wider Auckland region it's a fair number of sites but none are live at the moment

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#751326 26-Jan-2013 22:04

johnr:
DjShadow: Are other towns cities going to get an upgrade in big blocks like this or just site by site?

Sorry something we can't answer as of yet

It is coming though to the other smaller smokes. It is reasonably well know that work has been going on in at least Wellington + Christchurch deploying U900. Going to be an interesting year.

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#751373 27-Jan-2013 00:42

People will soon be able to use their phones!

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#751391 27-Jan-2013 06:50

joker97: People will soon be able to use their phones!

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#751393 27-Jan-2013 06:56

johnr:
DjShadow: Are other towns cities going to get an upgrade in big blocks like this or just site by site?

Sorry something we can't answer as of yet

All I think when reading this is is that in reality the answer is just: Yes, but I am not allowed to say that.

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#751409 27-Jan-2013 09:19

nicks: Have Vodafone said whether they plan to do the same across other cities? I have awful Vodafone 3G coverage at home (Wellington northern suburbs), but 2G coverage from the same site (just around the crest of a hill) is great, so 3G on 900MHZ would probably work (and would save me having to buy a femtocell).

I'm guessing it is Johnsonville or Newlands? Vodafone used to have great coverage and speeds here until a few years ago. They have moved/repositioned panels and things went down pretty quickly. I complained, JohnR looked at it, but never got things "fixed". Number portability came on so I moved on to another network.

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