Alan Parkington <alanparkington@team.telstra.net> wrote:
> From
> http://nqr.farmonline.com.au/news_daily.asp?ag_id=47755

> After carrying wireless telecommunications in rural Australia since
> 2000, the CDMA mobile phone network has just 25 days to live,

Another bare faced telstra lie.

> with Telstra gearing up for a last-minute rush from customers switching from the old network to Next G.

Must be rocket scientist fuckwits.

> Telstra management is certain that it will pass scrutiny by the
> Australian Communications and Media Association (ACMA),

And we will see if telstra's certain sees the acma make an obscene gesture
in their general direction and shafts them just like all the courts have done
time after time after time in the face of telstras certainty that they wont.

> which in December conducted extensive testing of Telstra's new Next G network to check that it is "comparable or
> better" than CDMA.

And you have absolutely no idea what they have decided on that.

Or even if they buy your line about what that means either.

> The former Coalition and new Labor governments have both said that Telstra will only be able to proceed with its
> planned switch-off the CDMA network on January 28 if the Next G network is deemed up to scratch by the ACMA's
> independent testing.

That aint what they said. They actually said that telstra will be held to
that same of better claim, and the word comparable wasnt used either.

> For Telstra, extinguishing CDMA can't come too early.

Mindless silly stuff. It would be too early for telstra if it was tomorrow, fuckwit.

> A big reason for its investment in the Next G network was to
> rationalise its two mobile networks (CDMA and GSM) into one.

Nope, the big reason was to avoid having to resell the cdma system.

> While CDMA remains in operation, the telco continues to maintain two networks - and bleed profits.

And after the cdma system is turned off, if its ever allowed to
do that, it will STILL have to maintain two networks, fuckwit.

> But Telstra Countrywide director, Gary Goldsworthy, who is in charge of CDMA migration, said the telco is "very
> confident" that Next G performs at least as well as CDMA.

What matters is whether the acma agrees with that.

> "We've done everything that the government has asked us to do in terms of coverage, handsets and solutions for
> customers," Mr Goldsworthy said.

And we'll see if the acma agrees with that.

> While there are still anecdotal reports of holes in Next G coverage,
> Mr Goldsworthy said as far as Telstra is concerned, the network is
> performing as it should.

Doesnt matter a damn what telstra thinks, its what the acma thinks that matters.

> "With most customers who say they can't get a signal, we're finding
> that it's a normal fault that you would find on any mobile network."

Pathetic.

> In any case, there's no going back.

The govt can force telstra to not turn off the cdma system.

> The "3G" GSM technology that powers Next G has a much more extensive upgrade "roadmap" than CDMA; a guarantee, Telstra
> says, that its Next G network won't be stuck in the technology backwater that rural Australia found itself in with the
> old analogue network.

> Most of the mobile-using world has voted for GSM.

Irrelevant.

> According to Telstra, about 85pc of the globe's mobile networks are based on GSM technology.

You werent singing that song when you were spruiking cdma.

So you'll have to pardon us when we dont buy your lies about NextG now.

And pity about the bands the rest of the world chooses to do GSM on too.

> Cingular, which controls the biggest mobile phone network in North America, is currently migrating its 50 million
> customers to a 3G network that uses the same bandwidth as Next G.

Pity about the rest of the world.

> At the same time, Ericsson, a former manufacturer of CDMA network
> components, has stopped working with CDMA technology, as has Nokia, which ceased making CDMA handsets in mid-2007.

Plenty of others still make them.

> And if Telstra's figures are to be believed,

You've gotta be fucking joking...

> Australia already has a better network with Next G than it has with CDMA.

Pity about those who dont get any service with NextG who do with cdma.

> The telco claims that Next G covers 98.9pc of the Australian
> population (CDMA supposedly covers about 98pc of the population),

Irrelevant to those who have a cdma service but no NextG service.

> with another $23 million to be spent on additional Next G highway coverage as part of an ongoing program to patch
> holes in high-traffic areas.