"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> James Bell <jamesbell@tellthetruthtelstra.com.au> wrote
>
>> From: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15192/1095/
>> Amid a deluge of numbers on every aspect of Telstra's business at
>> its investor day briefing, there was one number that Telstra did not
>> want to give: CDMA subscribers who have yet to be shifted onto Next G.
>
>> In his presentation on CDMA migration plans, Telstra Country Wide
>> group managing director Geoff Booth, just could not bring himself to
>> come out with the number, but talked around it saying: "The
>> industry, and even a politician as recently as today, has taken a
>> stab in the dark on CDMA numbers remaining. Let me state that these
>> estimates have it wrong. Here are some facts: CDMA revenue has now
>> gone from more than 15 percent of total mobile revenue to less than
>> six percent of our total mobile revenue in the past 12 months. Our
>> CDMA revenue base has declined by nearly 60 percent over the same
>> period in the last 12 months."
>
>> With such evasiveness one suspects the real number is embarrassingly
>> large.
>
> Or its just difficult to specify. How do you decide what qualifys as
> 'still on' ?
>
> I have some sims that dont have any fixed charge that happens even
> if I dont use them and I deliberately do so minimal activity on them to
> ensure they dont get cancelled. Do those qualify as 'still on' ?

Yup, still active

>
>> I'm not sure of what media Booth was referring to, but iTWire's figure of
>> 880,000 reported last week came from no lesser
>> person than the chairman of one of Telstra's resellers, Fone Zone.
>
> Doesnt mean that he has any access to the real number,
> and he certainly didnt say what qualifys as 'still on' either.
>

Pretty simple really, if the prepaid account is still active and not
cancelled

> And that is a particular problem with cdma

Nope, no different to GSM

when there are so
> many who have some dinosaur handset that they just have for
> real emergencys for when they cant get any GSM service.

They are still active, so must count towards the number

>



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