[frasergirl]

I have an old blackberry with Telstra which has worked well and support has been pretty good when I needed it. Now ready to upgrade to an 8700. the Vodafone sets (8700v) seem to be much cheaper than the Telstra version (8700g).

I'm not under contract, but am nervous about switching in case I lose data/contacts etc, and also in case the Vodafone support is not as good as the Telstra experience has been so far.

Any advice much appreciated!

[G M Fude]

I've had a mobile phone using the Vodafone network (via AAPT) for more than 5 years. Never had any problems with them. I travel extensively in China and South East Asia and there is always service (well, okay, except when the power went out for 6 hours in Auckland three weeks ago; Vodafone went down with it). I can't comment on their BlackBerry service but as far as voice goes, not a single issue.