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GPS-enabled phone use to triple by 2013

The number of GPS-enabled handsets is set to more than triple during the next five years, analysts have predicted.

Telstra Next G has 'enormous problems': Coonan

Despite Telstra's pledges that Next G network provides equal or better coverage than CDMA, federal Communications Minister Helen Coonan still foresees a delay to the switch off.

  • Phone recycling doubles as CDMA killed off

    The number of phones being handed in for recycling has sky-rocketed in NSW and Victoria in the lead up to Telstra's shutdown of its CDMA network.

  • Telstra's CDMA closure: Good night and good luck

    Telstra's CDMA network will be switched off at midnight tonight, after a three-month postponement, an extensive publicity drive to get 2G customers to make the switch, and repeated calls from bush users for Telstra not to decommission the network.

  • Telstra's CDMA shutdown: No gain without pain?

    As Telstra prepares to close off its CDMA network at the end of the month amidst concerns over customer migration to Next G, industry observers have said that after the dust settles the new network could hold promise for bush users.

  • Telstra hearing alarm bells over CDMA?

    After years of discussions and months of government wrangling, it's finally time for Telstra to close down CDMA for good. So how will the telco go about switching off an entire network?

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