"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Alan Parkington <parkingtona@team.telstra.com> wrote
>
>> From
>> http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15082/127/
>
>> Unless the government intervenes,
>
> Which it already has. It changed the license conditions for a reason,
> fuckwit.

To give itself the POWER to intervene, no evidence they will do that

>> but the chairman of on its resellers, Fone Zone, has revealed
>
> He didnt 'reveal', he CLAIMED, a different matter entirely.

Correct. FZ doesnt have access to Telstra subscribers numbers

>> that there are still almost 900,000 customers on the network.
>
> What matters is how many of those still use it.

Exactly. Plenty of people dont

>> 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
>
> Easy to claim, hell of a lot harder to actually substantiate that claim.

In fact, NONE of them 'need' to move, they can be disconnected if they like

>> "By migrating now customers can also avoid any last minute rush,
>
> Make a lot more sense to wait till Jan when it will be clearer
> what the govt of the day plans to do about the shutdown.

Just dont expect that the last offer is the best offer

> With any luck telstra will be told that they wont be allowed to shut it
> down, ever.

you are dreamin'