Jump in the van, drive out to the farm, glance at my mobile that didn't work very well last time I was there and I see 'no signal'.

Where was I? - at the farm...
Did I turn it off and on: no
Did I try a network search: no

What the hell did I do?....

I hit the button to tell me where I was, flicked to Network Info II and grabed a record of the device info and throw the phone back in the van.

It's a phone, it cost me $300, not one of those $50 jobs, I only just got in last month, I just expect the stupid thing to work.

Driving back into town it still didn't find a network... why, who knows.

How much do I pay to use this phone?  Bugger all...

Should I just sign up with Telecom and use their new XT network that works while you're fishing according to their MD?  I know it does, I saw him on TV so it must be true!!!

Should I ring Mr Joyce and tell him to hurry up and give Telecom and Vodafone that $300m to fix rural bb?!?!... hold on, check out the GPS info below... where was I?  Was I in the middle of no where?

Should I just take the phone back to the retailer and ask for a CGA credit as it's clearly not fit for the purpose I bought it...  "so the wife can nag me with texts while I'm out on the farm"... ;)

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Device Info @ 2011-02-06-141215+1300

Device IP: 172.31.44.33
External IP:
Ext. Hostname:
__Device Info_______
Phone Type:  GSM
Phone No.:  021 114 0699
Operator: 
Country: 
MCC+MNC: 
Net. Type:  Unknown
Cell:  Not available.
Neighbours:  0
IMSI:  530240101223162
IMEI:  355093040556348
Android ID:  9774D56D682E549C
__Wifi Info_______
MAC:  Not available.
Status:  Disabled
__Bluetooth Info_______
State:  Off
__IPv6 Info_______
^  No IPv6 address found on device.
Info:   'ip -o -f inet6 addr' returned null.
__Net Location_______
Location:  -43.554275, 172.612314
Accuracy:  1418.0m
Fix Time:  2011-02-06 14:12:08+1300