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#75464 18-Jan-2011 20:30

I find this quite funny, but impressed nonetheless. Yesterday I was 2km underground in the Manapouri Power Station. Lo and behold, I had between 1 and 3 bars of reception and while down there I managed to send txts/emails. On the other hand, driving between Manapouri and Te Anau, no reception at all. The same for Milford Sound. Would of loved to have had reception in Milford Sound.

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#428584 18-Jan-2011 20:36

Manapouri power station has its own Vodafone 3G 2100mhz cell

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#428587 18-Jan-2011 20:39

johnr: Manapouri power station has its own Vodafone 3G 2100mhz cell

So he is actually roaming on vodafone?

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#428588 18-Jan-2011 20:41

nakedmolerat:
johnr: Manapouri power station has its own Vodafone 3G 2100mhz cell

So he is actually roaming on vodafone?

Oh for sure

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#428589 18-Jan-2011 20:41

nakedmolerat:
johnr: Manapouri power station has its own Vodafone 3G 2100mhz cell

So he is actually roaming on vodafone?

Anywhere outside the main metro's where 2Degress have their own sites and you are roaming on Vodafone... So why should Manapouri be any different?

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#428590 18-Jan-2011 20:42

Yep I was. And to johnr, I thought that may of been the case. I just found it funny that way under ground I can txt etc but driving between Manapouri and Te Anau there is no signal, until you get close to Te Anau anyway

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#428591 18-Jan-2011 20:47

Vodafone have deployed a lot of 2100 3G sites for Transpower - there are many places literally in the middle of nowhere that have great coverage!

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#428596 18-Jan-2011 20:53

BarTender:
nakedmolerat:
johnr: Manapouri power station has its own Vodafone 3G 2100mhz cell

So he is actually roaming on vodafone?

Anywhere outside the main metro's where 2Degress have their own sites and you are roaming on Vodafone... So why should Manapouri be any different?

simple, i dont know where Manapouri is!

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#428610 18-Jan-2011 21:19

Google Maps is your friend :)