"Paul Day" <pauls@enigma.id.au> wrote in message
news:1210681201.93384@colossus.enigma.id.au...
> On Tue, 13 May 2008 21:17:50 Kwyjibo may have written:
>> > Please post proof where anyone advised "if you are covered by CDMA, you
>> > will always be covered by NextG"
>>
>> From the Telstra marketing brochure:
>> "to guarantee that consumers have the same or better coverage than CDMA"
>
> Michael argues that Telstra's use of the word "same" merely means "The
> same _number_ of square km coverred (but not neccesarily in the same
> _location_ as those coverred by CDMA.)"

Yeah, and they even lied about that too.
They based their square km estimate on their claim that some cells have a
range of 200km, but failed to mention that they measured that range by using
a NextG handset in an aeroplane that was associated with a NextG tower on
top of a mountain.
Dirty misleading fuckers.

>
> However, numerous other sources (including Telstra answering to a couple
> of Senate Estimates Committee hearings) clarify it as what every sane
> person assumes the words "same" and "equivalent" to mean when talking
> about a mobile phone service. I've pasted some quotes from Telstra in
> here a couple of times now but Michael chooses to ignore them.

Which just goes to show that Mikey doesn't have a clue.

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Kwyj.