Miles
01-12-2003, 01:35 PM
A DROPPED-OUT 000 emergency call was the last straw for Patrick Moore. After months of battling poor reception, disconnections and dropouts on Hutchison Telecommunications' 3 mobile phone network, he'd finally had enough.
"You're going to have a situation soon where a kid is going to die because the 3 network doesn't work," the kickboxing instructor from the inner Sydney suburb of Potts Point said.
Mr Moore's bills from Hutchison bear out his claims, showing hundreds of calls dropped, redialled and then dropped again within minutes, on countless occasions.
Hutchison has offered a variety of explanations: Mr Moore lives in a poor reception area; his eight-floor apartment is too high up; he should not use the phone while driving; and he should expect calls to drop out as the phone crosses from the 3 network to 2G.
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"You're going to have a situation soon where a kid is going to die because the 3 network doesn't work," the kickboxing instructor from the inner Sydney suburb of Potts Point said.
Mr Moore's bills from Hutchison bear out his claims, showing hundreds of calls dropped, redialled and then dropped again within minutes, on countless occasions.
Hutchison has offered a variety of explanations: Mr Moore lives in a poor reception area; his eight-floor apartment is too high up; he should not use the phone while driving; and he should expect calls to drop out as the phone crosses from the 3 network to 2G.
Read More (http://australianit.news.com.au)