Qld: Telstra boss says CDMA replacement on track

AAP General News (Australia)
08-21-2007
Qld: Telstra boss says CDMA replacement on track

BRISBANE, Aug 21 AAP - Telstra chief Sol Trujillo says the rollout of the telco's Next
G phone network, to replace CDMA, is on track.

Federal Communications Minister Helen Coonan says she has received hundreds of complaints
on a government helpline set up to assist consumers forced to switch to Next G once it
is fully up and running.

Senator Coonan says Telstra still has just over a month to get the network right.

But Mr Trujillo was confident all was going according to plan.

"The Next G network is operating very well," Mr Trujillo told reporters in Brisbane.

"We have over one million customers now and we are adding about 100,000 customers a
month so I think the customers are saying it's working very well."

Mr Trujillo said he stood by Telstra's commitment made last year when Next G was launched
that when the CDMA network was shut down the Next G network coverage would be equal to
or better than CDMA in all areas.

"If there are issues, we are encouraging people to point them out and we will deal
with them," he said.

The only question was whether the issue would be politicised, he said.

Mr Trujillo was speaking to reporters outside the Medinfo 2007 conference, which he
addressed today.

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