cdma stays on

Nah!! they won't turn it off.
Mike Harding boasted on this forum awhile back that he had sent a text back to Telstra awhile ago in response to one he received advising that the CDMA network would be switched of on 28th Jan telling them no it won't!!

So old Sol is now quaking in his boots worrying about Mr Harding's negative text response to the big switch off.

Maybe someone should tell Mr Harding that the original text was generated from an automated system that can't receive text replies. :-)

You're a sad puppy John.

Nup!! no sadness here Mr Harding in fact life is very very good to me. :-)

i was listening to 5aa today about 1230, when i heard this. i am going to confirm myself tomorrow. if i heard wrong I'm sorry, and i will be taking my new drugs back also.

Steady on there Shane . You may have foregotten to take the drugs .

yep..i heard it also

The CDMA phone won't work with Optus though.

yes it does, I have had OPTUS CDMA for 4 years. They only sold the phones thru Harvey Norman in areas where there was no Optus GSM cover. Even their friggin support number needs to be told a few times that they use Telstra's CDMA

In other words the CDMA phone won't work on Optus...

Perhaps Optus know that their agreement with Telstra will not expire until some date later... and are milking it for all it is worth with all the current misinformation about NextG ...

For sure it is a better network than NextG.

For sure you get better coverage most of the time.

Sometimes you might not.

Car kits with aerials are still hard to get...

In short, Telstra made promises that are hard to deliver on - stoopid idea, and are now trying to back away from as fast as possible.

Optus definitely resold Telstra CDMA, but it was certainly not restricted to non-GSM areas or to Hardly Normal shops - I went into the Nth Sydney Optus World shop to move my wife across to CDMA and pick up the phone less than 2 years ago.

You'll find it difficult, if not impossible, to get Optus to do a CDMA new connect now - all CDMA customers are on month-by-month contracts as of this month in preparation for the network closure, and all CDMA customers are receiving flyers with offers for moving to Optus GSM/3G networks.

I was looking to move my wife to Next G to maintain the coverage in the outback when I can't get Optus, but the 'blue tick' phones (and the 'country' phone just announced) which supposedly guarantee coverage in marginal areas are just plain awful, and other phones are only guaranteed coverage in metropolitan and regional centres. I'm now moving her back to Optus to make use of the multiple staff plans I can access and free mobile to mobile and mobile to home calls. We'll just have to look at other options for the 2 big trips each year, but for the other 99% of the time Next G makes no sense to us.

Steve L, Have you looked at the Nokia 6120, a mate has one and he gets good coverage out around Rolleston, springsure and up through to clermont in CQ. Its not a bad looking phone either, not as big and cumbersome as the ZTE rural and tradey.

Regards

Franga

Steve,
Aust Post are currently offering Samsung A411, which has the blue tick for $159 after cashback for a prepaid.
Gerry

all that story says is it is trying to improve the coverage of next g and is hope full they get the green light.

And the last government did... LOL LOL.. yer sure

The new PM Mr Kevin Dudd is purely interested in his holiday in Bali tomorrow and the acting PM Ms Julia Dillard has only the keys to the lodge on her mind.
They have no idea what a Next G or a CDMA is.

...could somebody PLEASE tyell these bleating liberals that their Government was voted out recently and MY Government was voted in...no amount of mud throwing on this forum is going to turn back the clock fellas-just wear it-as I had to wear it for the last 11 1/2 years!

Happy days

George

...could somebody PLEASE tell these bleating liberals that their Government was voted out recently and MY Government was voted in...no amount of mud throwing on this forum is going to turn back the clock fellas-just wear it-as I had to wear it for the last 11 1/2 years!

Happy days

George

....... and we had to endure 13 years of economic mismanagement & incompetence before that!
By the way, I also don't remember them saying SORRY then either, all they did was leave John Howard with the Mabo mess to clean up!

can't let that misrepresention go unchallenged...1. even Howard and Costello admitted during the recent campaign that the management of the economy during the Keating years was the basis for the strength of the economy ever since and 2. mabo was a DECISION OF THE HC OF AUSTRALIA - not a decision of the Government of the day!

Happy days

George

(you liberals...!)

Shaker?

Can you send a message to Adelaidegeorge and tell him to start saving, cos as the unions take over again we will be needing large amounts of cash to survive, and tell him not to keep it in his pockets as the Dudd factor will have his hands in there too.
Wild promises cost money.

I will be happy to revue this post after a couple of terms of Dudd govt. to prove my theory correct.
Its obvious that George doesnt live in the country!

Cheers Pesty

wrong again Pesty!.............I live at Blackwood! (ha ha)

Happy days

George

Careful guys we don't want to politicize the debate :-)

Looks like I will have to give you some free geography lessons as well as some political one's George, Blackwood is a dead set suburb of Adelaide mate.
I was right the first time.

Cheers Pesty

Which area is that you are referring to????

PeterD

i would be happy if i could get two bars here in Athelstone SA

Lol you dont actually believe that what theve been saying is true about when we swith of CDMA
No CDMA on the nearest tower but yet next G wont penatrate into the rooms
thats a next G phone roaming to GSM with 3 bars because there isnt sufficient next G reception