It sure did go well. Congratulations to GG and all the others at the GOC

"Alan Parkington" <patriot@iheartaustralia.com.au> wrote in message
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> http://news.theage.com.au/cdma-netwo...0429-2995.html
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> After months of public and political debate, Telstra's CDMA mobile phone
> network was switched off in the early hours of Tuesday morning with barely
> a whimper.
>
> According to Telstra, the shutdown occurred without any problems.
>
> "The switch off went to plan with no incidents reported from the very few
> customers that were still connected to the old CDMA network," Telstra
> spokesman Peter Taylor said.
>
> "While the past few days have been very busy in our shops and dealers, the
> vast majority of CDMA customers made the move to the Next G network many
> months ago with the new network already boasting hundreds of thousands
> more customers than CDMA ever did."
>
> A spokeswoman for the Consumers' Telecommunications Network said they had
> not received any calls of complaint since the network's closure.
>
> "We haven't received any calls today," the spokeswoman said.
>
> She added that they had received a high number of calls leading up to the
> original January 28 shutdown, but that this had reduced to a trickle in
> the past two weeks.
>
> "I think most were suffering from consumer complaint fatigue, given the
> resigned tone of those calls," the spokeswoman said.
>
> "Most people were hoping against hope that it wouldn't close."
>
> Telstra Country Wide director Gary Goldsworthy said the telco was now
> focused on the decommissioning of approximately 3,500 CDMA sites across
> Australia and the removal of redundant equipment.
>
> "The CDMA network equipment is now up to a decade old and well past its
> use by date," Mr Goldsworthy said.
>
> "Our technicians will therefore be removing old CDMA equipment and
> anything of value will be reused, sold or recycled."
>
> CDMA customers are being reminded that have until the end of May if they
> wish transfer their old mobile phone number to a Next G service.
>
> Telstra said it will continue to operate the 1800 888 888 support line for
> any customers with any concerns with their new Next G handsets.