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Old 01-10-2008, 04:30 AM
Bethany Ryan
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Default Re: Telstra confident of CDMA switch-off

Alice <e@shitanddie.com> writes:

>You've received an answer to your question about subverting the USA


>Why do you continue to post this blatant garbage, Parkington? Why suck
>up to a company that doesn't give a fuck about you?


Because he's a pro-liberal party stooge!


>Alan Parkington 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, with Telstra gearing
>> up for a last-minute rush from customers switching from the old network to
>> Next G.
>> Telstra management is certain that it will pass scrutiny by the Australian
>> Communications and Media Association (ACMA), which in December conducted
>> extensive testing of Telstra's new Next G network to check that it is
>> "comparable or better" than CDMA.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> For Telstra, extinguishing CDMA can't come too early.
>>
>> A big reason for its investment in the Next G network was to rationalise its
>> two mobile networks (CDMA and GSM) into one.
>>
>> While CDMA remains in operation, the telco continues to maintain two
>> networks - and bleed profits.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> "We've done everything that the government has asked us to do in terms of
>> coverage, handsets and solutions for customers," Mr Goldsworthy said.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> "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."
>>
>> In any case, there's no going back.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> According to Telstra, about 85pc of the globe's mobile networks are based on
>> GSM technology.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> And if Telstra's figures are to be believed, Australia already has a better
>> network with Next G than it has with CDMA.
>>
>> The telco claims that Next G covers 98.9pc of the Australian population
>> (CDMA supposedly covers about 98pc of the population), 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.
>>
>>


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