Terry, a whole lot of people at my place of business have just been forcably moved from Optus GSM to Telstra Next G. (I'm on Telstra GSM). Everyone I talk to tells me that my phone works where theirs doesn't, and this is in the middle of the eastern suburbs in Melbourne. The dont even comprehend what the requirements for an outlanding are. They just want a phone to work in the suburbs.
Stuart ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry Neumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." <aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 9:44 PM Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] CDMA/Next G > Mark Newton wrote: > >>Tricky to do. ACMA audited it before approving the NextG money. >> >>Any degradation in CDMA is probably attributable to poor maintenance >>standards. Remember that we're talking about the company that breached >>corporations law by giving a confidential briefing to Government MPs >>in which they confessed to cost-cutting for profits to such an excess >>that they'd underspent on network maintenance by over $3b since Sol >>Trujillo came onto the scene. That's billion with a b. >> >>It's the kind of thing that'd make a shareholder weep if they'd thought >>about the long-term implications. >> > > > The rumour around here among the bottom feeders like myself is that they > aren't worrying about "unnecessary" maintenance on CDMA because it's > going anyway. Besides if the service isn't as good as it once was, > well, that's a good reason to upgrade to Next G(arbage) isn't it ... > > I had a mate ring today on his NextG whizbang device. He had to re-dial > three times for us to complete the basics of the conversation; he was > only 5 km from the nearest cell, and had 4 bars out of 5 on his sig > strength meter. Apparently this was typical of the performance he has > been getting since he changed over form CDMA some months back. It's not > very encouraging. > > I think we'd better get back to gliding - this is becoming too depressing. > > Terry > > ps And don't even mention "Telstra Single Bill" in my hearing / reading > (please?). > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
