Ready to launch: Telstra plans Christmas advertising barrage

From
http://www.theage.com.au/news/busine...619060317.html

TELEVISION viewers hoping the end of the election campaign would mean the
end of blanket advertising will be disappointed, with Telstra to launch a
Christmas ad barrage about its contentious plan to turn off its CDMA rural
mobile network.

The Federal Government is yet to give Telstra permission to close the CDMA
network on January 28, because the replacement Next G network is yet to be
proven superior, but that will not stop the company from sending monthly
text message reminders to remaining customers about the deadline.

Telstra will also send regional managers to almost 800 events in rural and
regional Australia to explain that tardy customers on the older network will
be left with no mobile phone coverage if they do not switch to a Next G
phone.

"As we enter the final phase of the migration program you will see a massive
advertising campaign," Telstra Country Wide group managing director Geoff
Booth told investors at the annual briefing day.

The size of the campaign will be similar to Telstra's much-hyped Next G
launch in October last year. "We're very, very keen to smooth the conversion
over the remaining 88 days . from CDMA to Next G," Mr Booth said, before
loudly repeating the 88-day deadline.

Alan Parkington wrote:
> From
> http://www.theage.com.au/news/busine...619060317.html
<SNIP>

Get a life Alan, you must spend all your time awake looking for this
Tel$tra propaganda!


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They should be launching the fuckwit yanks right back to yankeeland.

McGauchie can go with them.

Alan Parkington <parkingtona@team.telstra.com> wrote:

> From
> http://www.theage.com.au/news/busine...619060317.html

> TELEVISION viewers hoping the end of the election campaign would mean the end of blanket advertising will be
> disappointed, with Telstra to launch a Christmas ad barrage about its contentious plan to turn off its CDMA rural
> mobile network.

Fat lot of good that will do them.

> The Federal Government is yet to give Telstra permission to close the
> CDMA network on January 28, because the replacement Next G network is
> yet to be proven superior, but that will not stop the company from sending monthly text message reminders to remaining
> customers about the deadline.

And if the ACCC actually had any balls, it would make them point out
that telstra doesnt get to decide when the cdma system is turned off.

> Telstra will also send regional managers to almost 800 events in rural and regional Australia to explain that tardy
> customers on the older network will be left with no mobile phone coverage if they do not switch to a Next G phone.

And if the ACCC had any balls, it would prevent telstra from lying like that.

> "As we enter the final phase of the migration program you will see a
> massive advertising campaign," Telstra Country Wide group managing
> director Geoff Booth told investors at the annual briefing day.

And no one who uses the cdma system will buy it, you watch.

> The size of the campaign will be similar to Telstra's much-hyped Next
> G launch in October last year. "We're very, very keen to smooth the
> conversion over the remaining 88 days . from CDMA to Next G," Mr
> Booth said, before loudly repeating the 88-day deadline.

You can shout that lie till the cows come home if you like, changes nothing, fuckwit.