There are now a number of Telstra mobile service resellers, selling Telstra's 850MHz 3G service at a significant discount eg. Boost, Aldi. I understand that Telstra's 3G 850MHz network has a slightly lesser coverage than its full network, at 98.5% population. What does this mean? Is the service still good for country coverage? Where does it fall short on? Is it a reasonable idea to use this network for bushwalking? Would it still be significantly superior to Optus or Voda's networks?
Anyone know?