I moved to house in Nov 09 to an outer melb suburb which according to the vodafone coverage map has "standard coverage". I have NO reception inside or outside, or out in the open or up on the main road or standing on one leg with my fingers crossed. I was trying to for weeks and weeks over 6 months in the end, speaking with different vodafone people, I heard every excuse, spoke to so many departments, with so many accents, spent so much time waiting and of course this was all when I was meant to be working or driving because I couldn't call from home in my spare time. They did send me a "new" very old model phone which occasionally comes up with 1 bar of service but then proves useless when it's needed. I gave up when I was told by an Aussie supervisor in a complaints department that I would have to see out my contract because it's not there fault because I moved, true, but I said to him that it is there fault i have no reception where they claim to have reception, when they clearly don't, he then blamed it on the tall trees near the boundary of our property (at least 50 metres from the house) and that this would be the "final decision" on this case. I'm completely over it, my contract has got 5 months to go and I can't afford to break it but I can't afford to be unavailable to the rest of the world even more. I'll be moving to telstra in the new year.
I thought I was the only one, Thank You for uniting us and breaking the silence of "No network coverage"