>> MORE than 20,000 Tasmanian mobile-phone users are using a system that
>> will stop working in four weeks.
>
> Or telstra is lying, as always.

Unlikely

>> Despite a massive marketing pitch by Telstra to encourage its customers
>> to switch to its Next G network, about 800,000 Australians still use CDMA
>> mobile phones.
>
> Thats just some number plucked out of some journo's arse.

Correct. The real number is much, much smaller

> You can tell that by the smell.
>
>> Now the 20,000 Tasmanians still using CDMA are being warned they risk
>> losing their phone numbers,
>
> Telstra is lying about that.

Nope.