On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:56:23 +0000, "Alan Parkington"
<brownnose@isuckseppos.com> wrote:

> From
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...15/2217296.htm
>
> The Federal Government has announced Telstra's CDMA mobile phone network
> will be switched off in less than two weeks.

Well it will get it over with, anyway. Of course the bad publicity, which
will result from people being forced to change to a network with inferior
coverage, won't do tel$cum much good. Not that they'll care much about
that. The scum are only customers, after all!

> Federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy says Telstra has met the
> requirements for the closure of the CDMA network on April 28.
>
> The shutdown was delayed earlier this year because Telstra's replacement
> service, the Next Generation network, was found to be inadequate.

It's still inadequate, but this farce has been going on for a long time
now and it's getting tedious. Let's hope nobody dies because of the
changeover though.

> Mr Conroy says anyone who still has a CDMA phone should make
> arrangements to switch to another network as soon as possible.
>
> He says Telstra has set up a free hotline to resolve any issues
> customers might have with the handset replacement program and the Next G
> network.
>
> The Federal Government says it is satisfied Telstra can now provide
> enough mobile phone handsets to customers for a smooth transition from
> the network.
>
> Mr Conroy says the move has been delayed by a shortage of handsets.
>
> "They didn't have a full range of handsets and that's where we stepped
> in and said, 'No, we won't be turning off the network in January'," he
> said.
>
> "You have to make available the 'blue tick' handsets to as many people
> as need them in their circumstances. So that's why we said no in
> January."

They should never have been selling handsets that didn't work, in the
first place, should they! Typical tel$cum.