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Old 11-18-2007, 05:46 AM
Michael
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Default Re: Nearly 2 million still on CDMA

how does 800k lead to a total of "nearly 2 million still on CDMA"

"James Bell" <jamesbell@tellthetruthtelstra.com.au> wrote in message
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> 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. 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.




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