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December 16th 2007 08:37
cellphone coverage
We went to a barbeque on Thursday night (for my wife’s workplace!) and forgot the number of the house. We were out in the country, because the barbeque was taking place at the beach house of one of the bosses, and discovered that the cellphone wouldn’t work when we tried to ring them to check the number. My wife reminded me that when my daughter had lived along the same road, her cellphone wouldn’t work either, something that hadn’t stuck in my memory as a particularly vital fact.
Cellphone coverage and cell reception is still very irregular – not just here in NZ but also in England, where we sometimes had the same problems.
It was even worse with the mobile connect we were using there, which sometimes got a great signal and sometimes was as slow as a wet week. And it was inconsistent: twice I began using it in the tent (running our power off an extension cord attached to a caravan hookup) and both times it was going at full strength. When we went to the pub down the road, however, it reverted to a weak signal and would hardly work at all. Very frustrating, as it’s a lot more comfortable working at a computer on a pub table than on your lap – even though laptops are presumably designed for laps. Sort of.

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Comment by bevetal

December 16th 2007 17:24
But did you get to the barbecuev? You missed out the important bit !

Comment by Mike Crowl

December 16th 2007 18:55
Yes, of course! Finished up going up two wrong drives in our attempts to find the place, and at the second house they knew where we needed to go...
Ah, the joys of country life.

Comment by Tracy

December 16th 2007 21:43
Glad you made it to the bbq!!

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