Alan Parkington <aparkington@team.telstra.com> wrote:

> From
> http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/20/2009952.htm

> Telstra says the level of complaints about its Next G phone network are not significant.

Wota stunningly impeccible source on that.

> The Federal Government says the new network is far from ready to replace CDMA.

No they dont.

> Communications Minister Helen Coonan says she has received hundreds of complaints on the
> Government's helpline set up for people who will
> need to move over to Next G once CDMA is switched off.

> But Peter Taylor from Telstra says concerns about the new system are exaggerated.

Easy to claim. Hell of a lot harder to actually substantiate that claim.

> "The Minister and the Government has shared a trickle of complaints with us in the last couple of
> weeks," he said.

> "You have to remember that the Next G network now has well over 1
> million customers so if there's 100 or 200 complaints, it really is very few."

Irrelevant to whether the govt will allow you to turn the CDMA system off.