thegoons wrote:
> "Alan Parkington" <parkingtona@team.telstra.com> wrote in message
> news:BBjVi.6537$CN4.6506@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>> From
>> http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15082/127/
>>
>> Unless the government intervenes, Telstra will close its CDMA network on
>> 28 January, but the chairman of on its resellers, Fone Zone, has revealed
>> that there are still almost 900,000 customers on the network.
>>
>> Fone Zone's chairman, Brian Finn, told the company's AGM on 29 October
>> that "there are still more than 880,000 CDMA customers who will need to
>> move to the Next G network in the next few months and they represent
>> significant potential for Telstra and Fone Zone. We intend to pursue that
>> potential with great vigour."
>>
>> On 22 October, Telstra Country Wide group managing director, Geoff Booth,
>> was urging CDMA customers to make the switch, saying Telstra did not want
>> any of its customers stranded without a mobile network.
>>
>> "By migrating now customers can also avoid any last minute rush, be sure
>> that they keep their mobile number and, if they are using prepaid,
>> transfer any remaining credit," Booth said.
>>
>> To encourage customers to make the move Telstra is offering $100 credit to
>> postpaid CDMA customers who move to an eligible plan on the Next G network
>> before 13 November 2007.
>>
>
> $100 is bullshit, I will leave it until the very last day. In any case,
> Minister Coonan and Attorney General Ruduck will intervene and demand
> Telstra extend, or else lose their telco license.
>
>
>

I saw another article where they said they'd be offering CDMA customers
special deals if they signed up for a THREE YEAR contract.