watch the birdie wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 05:53:05 -0000, Paul Day <pauls@enigma.id.au> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:20:57 GMT in aus.comms.mobile Alan Parkington may have written:
>>> Telstra yesterday declared extensive testing conducted by its own
>>> teams with strategic partner Ericsson had already shown the Next G
>>> network is "bigger, better and faster than CDMA...
>> But does it cover all of the footprint currently provided by CDMA?
>
> That's a trick question. With the "robbing" of CDMA coverage (via bandwidth)
> Tel$tra have downgraded CDMA
in a number of areas to the point where 3G just
> might match CDMA_NOW

That's ribbish, I'm sick of hearing it. Next-G coverage matches CDMA,
it's only the crappy Next G handsets which are impeding coverage.

For Telstra to shutdown CDMA they need to make sure they can supply
reasonable C-grade handsets to consumers. That's all that is hindering
the closure of CDMA.