Michael <michael@yahoo.com> wrote:

>>> 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

Irrelevant to the fact that that is currently a lie when
telstra doesnt know what the govt will allow on that.

>>> 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

Easy to claim, hell of a lot harder to actually substantiate that claim.

>> 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.

Yep. The TIO wont let them pull that stunt, you watch.