>>> > 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.

No different to the way that customers made calls using CDMA in the same
fashion.

No different from offshore oil rigs making calls using cells on the mainland
in the same fashion. Or fishing trawlers.