Alan Parkington wrote:
> from
> http://news.theage.com.au/cdma-netwo...0429-2995.html
>
> 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.

What were they anticipating? Did they think the network might have been
possessed (perhaps by the lingering spirit of the old analogue network)
and that it might have refused to switch off?