The city I live in, Port Macquarie, has awful cell phone reception basically everywhere (I’m on the Vodafone network).

Is this something I can bring up with the local council, or elected representative?

I can’t believe I live in a city of 50,000 people and I’m unable to receive phone calls from my house.

    • Zozano@aussie.zoneOP
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      10 months ago

      Proper repeaters cost hundreds of dollars. I’ve seen homemade signal boosters on YouTube which can be made with $30 of parts from Jaycar.

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      10 months ago

      Optus might be out of our price range here. A repeater shouldn’t be too expensive however.

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        10 months ago

        Vodafone is good enough, mostly. The main advantage is that it’s dirt cheap, I’m paying $25 a month for my phone and it’s unlimited data. Not fast unlimited, but I don’t get fast internet anyway so unlimited is still nice.