Govt approves shutdown of CDMA network

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Alan Parkington - 15 Apr 2008 04:56 GMT

From
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/15/2217296.htm

The Federal Government has announced Telstra's CDMA mobile phone network
will be switched off in less than two weeks.

Federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy says Telstra has met the
requirements for the closure of the CDMA network on April 28.

The shutdown was delayed earlier this year because Telstra's replacement
service, the Next Generation network, was found to be inadequate.

Mr Conroy says anyone who still has a CDMA phone should make arrangements to
switch to another network as soon as possible.

He says Telstra has set up a free hotline to resolve any issues customers
might have with the handset replacement program and the Next G network.

The Federal Government says it is satisfied Telstra can now provide enough
mobile phone handsets to customers for a smooth transition from the network.

Mr Conroy says the move has been delayed by a shortage of handsets.

"They didn't have a full range of handsets and that's where we stepped in
and said, 'No, we won't be turning off the network in January'," he said.

"You have to make available the 'blue tick' handsets to as many people as
need them in their circumstances. So that's why we said no in January."

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Will Kemp - 15 Apr 2008 09:45 GMT

> From
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/15/2217296.htm
>
> The Federal Government has announced Telstra's CDMA mobile phone network
> will be switched off in less than two weeks.

Well it will get it over with, anyway. Of course the bad publicity, which
will result from people being forced to change to a network with inferior
coverage, won't do tel$cum much good. Not that they'll care much about
that. The scum are only customers, after all!

> Federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy says Telstra has met the
> requirements for the closure of the CDMA network on April 28.
>
> The shutdown was delayed earlier this year because Telstra's replacement
> service, the Next Generation network, was found to be inadequate.

It's still inadequate, but this farce has been going on for a long time
now and it's getting tedious. Let's hope nobody dies because of the
changeover though.

> Mr Conroy says anyone who still has a CDMA phone should make
> arrangements to switch to another network as soon as possible.
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> as need them in their circumstances. So that's why we said no in
> January."

They should never have been selling handsets that didn't work, in the
first place, should they! Typical tel$cum.

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Rod Speed - 15 Apr 2008 10:30 GMT

> Alan Parkington <brownnose@isuckseppos.com> wrote

>> From
>> http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/15/2217296.htm
[quoted text clipped - 17 lines]
> time now and it's getting tedious. Let's hope nobody dies because of
> the changeover though.

Atleast one already has.

>> Mr Conroy says anyone who still has a CDMA phone should make
>> arrangements to switch to another network as soon as possible.
[quoted text clipped - 19 lines]
> They should never have been selling handsets that didn't work, in the
> first place, should they! Typical tel$cum.

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rebel - 15 Apr 2008 13:29 GMT

>> From
>> http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/15/2217296.htm
>>
>> The Federal Government has announced Telstra's CDMA mobile phone network
>> will be switched off in less than two weeks.

(snip)

>> Mr Conroy says the move has been delayed by a shortage of handsets.
>>
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
>They should never have been selling handsets that didn't work, in the
>first place, should they! Typical tel$cum.

And they are still selling the ZTE POS.

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