[AusNOG] No Optus mobile broadband in Darwin

[Kai]

Righteo, thanks.
I'm interested to hear feedback from any Optus staff about their plans with mobile broadband in this area.

When I was on holiday in Melbourne I got 3, worked in Melb, Syd and Bris but not here, even though I thought 3 use Telstra's network.

I'm currently using Vodafone wireless broadband, sure the signal usually sux and there's just enough radiation floating around to get a reasonable connection. Telstra charge nearly twice as much for recharge/monthly data allowance than any other carrier and since Optus (and therefore Virgin, WestNet and any other Optus reseellers) don't have service here, Vodafone will do.

Cheers
Kai

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Hooper" <dhooper at emerge.net.au>
To: ausnog at ausnog.net
Sent: Tuesday, 18 May, 2010 3:43:27 PM GMT +09:30 Darwin
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] No Optus mobile broadband in Darwin

>From what I've heard Telstra is currently the only carrier with backhaul (fibre) out of Darwin, so one would assume Optus is renting a slice of that from Telstra and Optus is running a super high contention ratio on that backhaul circuit themselves.

I'm still looking for more realistic priced services in Darwin myself, currently paying a 4 digit figure a month for 512k BSDL services from Telstra.

-Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Kai
Sent: Tuesday, 18 May 2010 1:51 PM
To: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: [AusNOG] No Optus mobile broadband in Darwin

Hi guys and girls,

Can anyone shed some light on Optus mobile broadband in Darwin? Optus' website service coverage map (http://www2.optus.com.au/) says it's available all through Darwin however no one in any of the Optus stores I've been to can give me any reasons why mobile broadband is not available just that "it's not available anymore and we don't have any indications when it will be back"....but if I want I can order Optus based mobile through someone in another state and then just hope like hell that the congestion doesn't hit too hard during peak and effectively be as slow as dial-up.

I tried contacting Optus last week through their website but I don't expect a reply anytime soon and if I do get a reply it'll probably be a canned copy and paste.

I can only guess that since I get the impression there used to mobile broadband here, congestion issues with mobile voice are causing issues, however I thought voice and data may be on different frequencies so congestion on the voice band wouldn't cause any issues?

Looking forward to any feedback

Cheers
Kai
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