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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (54109)	8/3/2006 7:58:10 AM
From: kech	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 197248

Mq you seem to be prescient on the Australia Telstra flip. According to this from DR on Ihub, Telstra was shocked when Ericsson told them about the coverage they would get with their WCDMA compared to CDMA. Posted by: Data_Rox In reply to: None Date:8/3/2006 7:12:54 AM Post #of 17652 Telstra bungles unwired broadband The Australian Financial Review August 3, 2006 David Crowe Tests have revealed Telstra's wireless broadband technology will result in "absolutely dreadful" services to rural Australia. Equipment supplier Ericsson alerted Telstra to the problem with the $A1.1bn third generation (3G) mobile telephone network in July 2006. Sources say the service was of a very low quality just a few kilometres from the base station, meaning Telstra must spend hundreds of millions of dollars on more base stations if it continues with its plan to force 1.3 million CDMA network customers onto the 3G network in 2007. The tests showed customers could expect broadband speeds of just 200 kilobits a second compared to the promised 3.6 megabits