"thegoons" <thegoons@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> "Graeme Willox" <graemewillox@aapt.net.au> wrote in message
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>> 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/
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>>>> 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.
>>>>
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>>> $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.
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>> I saw another article where they said they'd be offering CDMA customers
>> special deals if they signed up for a THREE YEAR contract.
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> hahaha would be like carrying around a candlestick telephone by the end of
> the contract

Is that much different from the majority of CDMA customers still using
Qualcomm QCP860s, Hyundai HGC-120es or MOT SC3160s?
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