Managing director of the Telstra Wide group ‘Geoff Booth’ recently announced that Telstra BigPond’s Next G network coverage has been extended to include Cradle Mountain and Bass Strait in Tasmania. The increase in coverage is expected to greatly assist emergency servicess around the Cradle Mountain area along with the provision of many services for passengers aboard the Spirit of Tasmania.
Assistant Police Commissioner Scott Tilyard said: “From a community safety perspective, access to mobile telephone and wireless internet services in the Cradle Mountain area will enhance the operational response capability of police and other emergency services, especially for incidents such as search and rescue and road crashes.
Passengers can now use ATMs, shop with EFTPOS and get uninterrupted mobile coverage and fast wireless broadband during the Melbourne to Devonport journey,” Mr Booth said.
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I agree that for safety and other reasons that is a positive but is it talk or action or sales and marketing talk. I am in Norwood a suburb of Launceston but am unable to get consitent NextG connection using their Ultimate wireless modem – it is hard to get good information as my windows network connection is saying that my reception is excellent, my Ultimate modem is saying the connection is excellent but web pages go from fast loading to wait and drop out loading of web pages all the time – would really like to know if Wireless mobile networks really work in Tasmania – is it a capacity problem – do not know how it can be promoted if service in Norwood is sub standard to what I have experienced on the mainland – for example Gold Coast – Tweed – someone has said that the latter area is 4G which is why the service is better – wpuld like to know if others get the same problem or is it my setup