>> Yep, of course there would be. If it ain't broke, why fix it? If it can
>> be re-used as part of an upgrade, why ditch it? If it can be software
>> upgraded, why replace it?
>>
> It's been replaced to provide more and better services.
>
>> Even the new NextG network relies on numerous chunks of hardware from
>> the CDMA network which won't be removed as part of CDMA's decommision.
>
> Total and utter CRAP!
> The NextG network uses all new hardware. The only CDMA stuff re-used

Depends what you classify as "hardware". The huts are shared with CDMA - so
is that "all new hardware". What about cooling units, aircon? power? etc

Is that "all new hardware"

> CDMA has been upgraded to the end of it's life. There is no way
> forward from here.

Was our CDMA flavour the latest and greatest flavour of CDMA? I doubt it

> More of the same old equipment.
>
>> - addition of Short Message Service
>> - addition of better voice codecs (GSM-8PSK-AMR and EVRC)
>> - addition of packet data (GPRS and 1xRTT)
>
> CDMA could do this when it was installed. It was ahead of it's time

Was SMS available at launch? I have a feeling it wasnt, it was a few months
off