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.

    • ZozanoOP
      2·
      9 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.

    • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

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

    • eatham 🇭🇲MEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Optus internet is terrible I haven’t used vodaphone but it can’t be worse than optus

      • RisingSwell@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 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.

      • ephemeral_gibbon
        2·
        9 months ago

        Optus easily beats Vodafone in most regional areas. Vodafone is fine in the big cities but outside of that is completely useless.