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[Tyzza_07_09_11]

What was phone reception like for Friday night?

Not good for me (on vodafone). Not sure if temporary upgrade was ready for this week, or I assume it’s just Telstra and nothing for optus/vodafone?

I seemed to have some luck with Telstra, struggled during the breaks but it was at least enough to check stats and such during the quarters. So a starting point that will help for this year, and glad to see the response from the trust, but still not a long term solution.

 

[cats_09]

I can't talk about Friday night, but I'm with Optus and over the years I've found reception to be fine during quarters as people are watching the game & not really on their phones

It's always been about the 10/15mins before the match starts and then during breaks when it shits itself - curious to see what it's like next match

 

[Tyzza_07_09_11]

I can't talk about Friday night, but I'm with Optus and over the years I've found reception to be fine during quarters as people are watching the game & not really on their phones

It's always been about the 10/15mins before the match starts and then during breaks when it shits itself - curious to see what it's like next match

I'd agree with that in previous years, however first two games this year I'd had absoloutely nothing for the entire two and a half hours, including in quarter. Perhaps it's more that those games both drew 35k+ but this was smaller and hence less demand on the network?

 

[Pods]

We were there on Friday and it was no better at all (not sure if temp system is up and running yet though).

FYI- we’re with Telstra

 

[CatAttack84]

What was phone reception like for Friday night?

Should be better with Telstra's temporary tower for the remainder of the season.

 

[Turbocat]

Should be better with Telstra's temporary tower for the remainder of the season.

Why do we need towers? Cant we use the light towers?

 

[kurt_kb]

People seem not to have clocked that the trust now run the venue not the club

Even within this thread that's true.

 

[CatAttack84]

Why do we need towers? Cant we use the light towers?

This is the temporary tower for the season until they can sort it properly. As to why you can't use the light towers I could think of a bunch of obvious reasons, but as I'm neither a structural nor comms engineer I'll keep them to myself.

Suffice to say these things all serve a different purpose, and are assets that belong to different orgs, with different standards, and I'm sure different safety regulations.

 

[CatAttack84]

Even within this thread that's true.

What's amazing that even before the Trust was setup by the VIC Gov, it's ALWAYS been owned and run by the city, and never the club, no different to any other sporting club, save for exceptions like the MCC/MCG arrangement.