On Apr 27, 3:29 pm, Jim Breen <jimbr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Apropos of "au", a quick-and-dirty US-style CDMA system was whipped
. in by one Australian telco (Telstra) some years ago, using
infrastructure
> recycled from its older AMPS analogue network. It was mainly put in
> to keep country people quiet, because the GSM network with its 27km
> max cell-radius didn't have the reach of pure analogue systems. That
> CDMA network is being turned off *tomorrow* to create space for its
> expanding WCDMA service (marketed as "Next G").

Any chance of a reposting of this in a language I understand? ;-)

John