This one could be very important for all Treo 700p/755p/6xx CDMA users – from today onwards, your travels to Australia will be graced by permanent “No Signal” alerts of your Treo.
PocketPCThoughts quotes Telstra Country Wide Director Gary Goldsworthy as follows:
The old CDMA mobile network would shut down across the country at midnight tonight, closing a significant chapter in the history of telecommunications in Australia. “At midnight tonight Telstra will commence the carefully planned closure of the redundant CDMA mobile network. Today really is the last chance for remaining CDMA customers to move across to a new mobile network, such as the Telstra Next G™ network, and remain connected” Mr Goldsworthy said. “CDMA technology has served Australia well over the years but has now been superseded by more advanced third generation mobile technology such as the Telstra Next G™ network, which carries about 7.5 times the data carried on the CDMA network at its peak.”
In case anyone of you is now looking for an alternative, I can whole-heartedly recommend the Treo 680(review here, here, here and here). People using a Treo 650 on CDMA will not feel any speed difference due to the Treo 680’s EDGE capabilities. Last but not least, the bigger RAM of the 680 makes your life more pleasant…
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Had to laughat all the people who were complaining about how busy the Telstra stores were on the 28th, as if they had only found out then that the service was closing. personally I am very happy with my next G phone.
Telstra runs a good service… but you pay through the nose for it. Optus 3G and Vodaphone 3G coverages are second, by a fair way.
Three (Hutchinson) seems to be the best, but has unfortunately high roaming (on telstra, irony) fees.
Hi Folks,
the issue is(as I see it): no more CDMA.
Even if their service is great as always, CDMA phones will no longer work…
Best regards
Tam Hanna
P.S. As for Hutchison…these folks are really excellent. I use them with my Nokia N71 for quite some time and cant complain!
Just FYI, Telstra’s Next G is 3GSM HSDPA on 850 MHz.
Do not know if a 680 works on such a network since it is only 2.5GSM (GPRS+EDGE).
Hi Ton,
oops. My 680 doesnt work on Three(Austrian HSDPA network) – but works on classic carriers that also deployed UMTS in addition.
Weird
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Best regards
Tam Hanna
Yeah… although cheap CDMA doesn’t work well in my country.