New Optus Coverage Map
Posted in information technology, rants on August 7th, 2008 by Troy
Optus CEO Paul O'Sullivan
Today Optus CEO Paul O’Sullivan announced a major upgrade to the Optus coverage network. In light of some recent network features being added that may have affected several customers in a small unpopulated area of the country, Optus has released a new coverage map detailing it’s new improved 3G coverage.
Having committed $AU315 million to upgrade the network to better service their priority markets by December 2009, Mr O’Sullivan said “Decisions were made after a recent major outage to fast track the development of the new network coverage plan that will better service the customers that we feel are critical”.
Fending off claims that there are major issues with the Optus network that have caused over a million customers to have little or no mobile telephone service since Friday last week Mr O’Sullivan said “Obviously with the new coverage target this is no longer an issue”.
The Newly Updated Optus Coverage Map
It is yet to be seen if the ongoing network issues that has been plaging the telco can be resolved with their new solution to adapt their network coverage. After releasing a statement today that they were working closly with the vendor of their 3G network (Nokia Siemens Networks) to resolve issues, when asked why the issues were still ongoing 7 days since detection and after obviously affecting both 2G and 3G customers an Optus spokesperson waved his had in my face and said “There is no network outage… everything is resolved.”
We are happy to report that there is no longer a network outage, and everything is resolved. However, please don’t try and call or txt my mobile phone - for some reason it’s not working.
