On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:45:35 GMT, Will Kemp <Will@xxxx.Swaggie.net> wrote:

>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.
(snip)

>> 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.

And they are still selling the ZTE POS.