Spokes <spokesman123@hotmail.com> wrote
> thegoons <thego...@bigpond.com> wrote

>> Why should I have to be forced into buying an expensive new
>> NEXT-G fancy handset, when it is Telstra forcing me off CDMA?

>> They made the decision to shut down their network, not me. I signed
>> up to CDMA in good faith that it was a new technology (newer than
>> GSM, the 'latest and greatest' according to The Hon. Tim Fisher aka
>> Fizzler back in 1999), yet they now claim it is an ageing relic.

>> Surely this is against basic consumer law.

> The CDMA closure is tough for some.

It remains to be seen if it will happen.

> move on, get with it.

Only a fool would do that now when the govt might well choose to shaft
telstra by telling them that they can turn the cdma system off, ever.

And even the dud may well choose to shaft telstra on that
too if the voters are actually stupid enough to elect it.

> incentives are being thrown at you to migrate
> to nextg with the least possible financial pain.

The only thing that makes any sense at all is a free nextg handset of
as least as good a performance as the cdma system you have now,
AND the same plan detail as you already have with cdma too.

> After jan 28, CDMA is no more

Just another bare faced lie.

> and you will lose your mobile number if you don't migrate beforehand,

Just another bare faced lie. You still have the right to the number for quite
a while after the cdma system stops, even if it does stop on that date.

> unless the mighty Roddles has a really effective solution.

Wait and see what happens on the cdma system
shutdown is the only thing that makes any sense at all.

Even someone as stupid as you should have noticed that date is
after the election is over and it makes a lot more sense to change
in Jan than to do that now, if its become clear that the dud has
got elected and that its actually stupid enough to cave in to telstra's
demands on that and you need a continuous mobile service and the
ACCC hasnt had the balls to tell telstra its not allowed to turn it off.