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| Thread ID: 85451 | 2007-12-10 21:05:00 | So... cdma roaming in oz | jermsie (6820) | PC World Chat |
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| 620047 | 2007-12-10 21:05:00 | I'm going to aussie quite soon and although I have no plans to makes calls or send txt messages on my Telecom mobile, I would still like to recieve messages over the Christmas period. A friend told me it costs $10 to activate roaming on Telecom mobiles for the soon to be gone, cdma network in Australia. Has anyone travelled to Australia and used their Telecom mobile? Let me know what your experience was like. |
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| 620048 | 2007-12-10 21:16:00 | I'm going to aussie quite soon and although I have no plans to makes calls or send txt messages on my Telecom mobile, I would still like to recieve messages over the Christmas period. A friend told me it costs $10 to activate roaming on Telecom mobiles for the soon to be gone, cdma network in Australia. Has anyone travelled to Australia and used their Telecom mobile? Let me know what your experience was like.Interesting experience. Sydney is all I can comment on and it was fine there. Receiving calls is a piece of cake, but sending, using your own built in phone book might be problematic, with all the extra numbers you have to dial ('cos you're dialling from +61 instead of +64). I used a Palm Treo - there is a wee app that Telecom supplies that converts all your phonebook entries to Oz formatted numbers (and back, when you come home - but it can muck up any already-overseas numbers you have stored), but it's still a bit of a mind-bender. Expensive too. |
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| 620049 | 2007-12-10 23:29:00 | My wife's Nokia went fine over there and could make and recieve calls. However my work Vodafone mobile that has roaming enabled wouldn't even log on.. "Emergency Only" on the screen.. | paulw (1826) | ||
| 620050 | 2007-12-11 08:20:00 | I'm going to aussie quite soon and although I have no plans to makes calls or send txt messages on my Telecom mobile, I would still like to recieve messages over the Christmas period. A friend told me it costs $10 to activate roaming on Telecom mobiles for the soon to be gone, cdma network in Australia. Has anyone travelled to Australia and used their Telecom mobile? Let me know what your experience was like. It's no sweat to roam a CDMA mobile in Oz, just get it set up by Telecom and away you go. We did it two years ago and we'll be there in January again using CDMA, but after the end of January the Oz CDMA network shuts down (to allow a new player to use that bandwidth) so after that you'll have to use a TDMA phone such as Vodafone or the new TDMA enabled Telecom CDMA Samsung phone. I just fitted the free Telecom sim card into my Samsung so I'm ready to roll. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 620051 | 2007-12-11 09:44:00 | Thanks for the feedback. Just using it to recieve messages on the Telecom number while im there. Might use Virgin Mobile for comm. within oz. Cheers |
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