Vic High Country Ph Coverage

**Tonks** · 14th March 2015, 07:40 AM

Whats the phone coverage like in the Vic High Country.
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**Drewboyaus** · 14th March 2015, 07:45 AM

At best can be described as random.......
Sometimes you can get signal from either carrier when you get to a ridge line sometimes one or the other of the carriers.
Once you come off a ridge or mountain top pretty much no coverage.

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AB · 14th March 2015, 08:31 AM

X2 as Drewboyaus mentioned Tonks so a lot of times you can check in with family and friends when touring around on the ridges.

**happygu** · 14th March 2015, 11:09 AM

Tonks,

There are plenty of areas with no coverage at all, especially in the valleys, but I am amazed at the times where you do find coverage.

I guess you have got to think that there is Mt Buller, Mt Hotham, and Falls Creek, so you pick up a lot from there, and then there are all the towns dotted around the fringes, Omeo in the middle.

Lots of times you can receive and send texts but not be able to make calls, but I was able to make a phone call last weekend from the top of the Sentinels near Lake Tarli Khan in Licola..... and that is in the middle of nowhere

**Winnie** · 14th March 2015, 12:06 PM

I was able to make a phone call from Talbotville last time.

**Hodge** · 14th March 2015, 12:06 PM

Originally Posted by happygu

Lots of times you can receive and send texts but not be able to make calls,

+1

This is what I found, in a lot of places where no calls or data are possible. Even when the phone shows no bars at all, I could still receive and send texts.

**BigRAWesty** · 14th March 2015, 12:39 PM

Dargo is no go. But just north is a little.

**Sir Roofy** · 14th March 2015, 12:48 PM

Its hit and miss all over mate sometimes its just a small window on the ridge your best bet is a sat phone

**Bob** · 15th March 2015, 09:33 AM

I was once camped on the King River just below the King Hut and needed to check for Phone calls every day as I was running my business then.
Used to drive for 30/40 minutes twice a day up to a ridge to get reception.
When leaving the Camp on the way home I turned on the Phone and within 40 yards of the Camp I had full reception.Deep in a valley but somehow it worked.
As Roofy said very Hit & Miss.

**Winnie** · 15th March 2015, 09:47 AM

Originally Posted by biggqwesty

Dargo is no go. But just north is a little.

I get quite a bit of service in Dargo. Can make calls and even use the Web.

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