CDMA coverage It also has a great deal to do with the handset. I owed a Samsung CDMA and thought the system left a lot to be desired, poor coverage, dropping calls etc. I now have a Nokia CDMA and coverage is what I require and expected.
SDF -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Newton Sent: Thursday, 8 December 2005 12:53 PM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] The Future CDMA service Ian McPhee wrote: > I heard about that and am horrified - went around tassie recently and the > CDMA worked almost all over - my friend (ex telecom) phone was all but > useless. Is it time to contact Barnaby Joyce? Notice recently Nigel Andews > had an old Hyundai CDMA and I asked how come you have that - He said "it > workes everywhere and I just leave it prepaid" which I find has no time > limit. He had a GSM for regular use. You'll note that CDMA coverage at the moment is inferior to the old AMPS coverage from the mid 1990's too, so the disappearance of CDMA is really two steps backwards, not one. Contacting Barnaby Joyce will be of little value. Barnaby Joyce's party voted to privatize Telstra, and the flip-side of that is that Telstra is now a commercial organization making decisions on the basis of commercial imperatives, because that's what private companies do. Folks like me warned that this kind of thing would happen, and I'm sure there'll be more of it in the future, but the kind of people who vote for Government asset sales don't tend to take kindly to arrogant bastards saying, "I told you so," when it all turns pear-shaped afterwards :-) For what it's worth, Telstra is currently engaging in some political posturing of its own, and is attempting to make use of the aforementioned commercial imperatives to get the regulatory landscape changed (and the changes, I might add, will have the effect of making it even easier to do this kind of stuff in the future). Any public announcements Telstra makes in the present environment really need to be taken with a grain of salt. We're all just waiting for the big ACCC smackdown, but until that happens you can expect Telstra to continue to make irrational and abusive threats against its customer base, then say the Government's regulatory system is giving it no alternative. It's all part of creating public support for tearing-apart the regulatory system. Don't be sucked-in by it. > Where do we start - what people want in country is a service and not bells > and whistles and I understand GSM is not much use beyond 32km and besides > CDMA does not interfer with aviation radio like GSM! There are some technical and economic realities around telecommunications which people in regional areas need to face up to. They voted for political parties which would privatize Telstra after swallowing the line that it was theoretically possible for communications services in the bush to be equivalent to those in the city. "We'll set aside a few billion for regional telecommunications," said the Government, "if you let us sell-off Telstra for ideological reasons!" In practice achieving city-style telecommunications in the bush requires massive, unprecedented capital investment. And private corporations never make capital investments without expecting a return; And they can't get returns in the bush because the population density isn't high enough to provide the income stream needed to pay for the required infrastructure. So turning Telstra into a private corporation in charge of telecommunications in the bush was 100% the wrong answer. If you want quality, you aren't going to get it now. Not from Telstra, anyway. As I said above, you can expect a hell of a lot more than this in future years. There's no point crying about it now; If Australia wanted the public interest to override the profit motive in rolling out telco services in the bush then it shouldn't have voted in a political party that was ideologically opposed to public ownership of telecommunications companies. The bed has been made, now is the time to lie in it. - mark -------------------------------------------------------------------- I tried an internal modem, [EMAIL PROTECTED] but it hurt when I walked. Mark Newton ----- Voice: +61-4-1620-2223 ------------- Fax: +61-8-82231777 ----- _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
