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#133599 27-Oct-2013 20:08

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#922669 27-Oct-2013 20:18

Good find! Surprises me that CDMA shutdown was important enough for shirts to be handed out.

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#922717 27-Oct-2013 21:17

Lot of people worked on it. So there were tee's printed for a fair number of folks who worked long hours getting it all done.

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#922719 27-Oct-2013 21:18

Can I please have one of the t-shirt please?

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#922720 27-Oct-2013 21:20

plambrechtsen: Lot of people worked on it. So there were tee's printed for a fair number of folks who worked long hours getting it all done.

When I was there there was one chap in my team who wore these shirts almost every Friday, he said it was his "pride and joy" - there's a few of these shirts hanging around, I tried getting one for the hell of it :)

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#922728 27-Oct-2013 21:27

Who has the AMPS and DAMPS shut down team shirt?

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#922786 27-Oct-2013 22:00

Cd whot? Lol

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#922793 27-Oct-2013 22:09

johnr: Who has the AMPS and DAMPS shut down team shirt?

Never seen anyone with them, shall we print some?

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#922799 27-Oct-2013 22:14

There is still the odd cellsite I've seen around Hamilton where it looks like the CDMA antennas are still on the masts (Dinsdale for example)

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#922821 27-Oct-2013 22:39

Were there any XT Shutdown Team shirts handed out during the XT launch fiasco?

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#922885 28-Oct-2013 08:53

Personally I would have thought that equipment would be remotely powered down, and then pulled out at the next scheduled site maintanence visit.
I wouldnt have thought there would be a mad rush to pull it all out so quick.

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#922891 28-Oct-2013 09:10

Most of the cdma gear is still in the cellsites and on the towers but as 4g is being rolled out alot of it is slowly being removed

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#926173 2-Nov-2013 09:43

Did customers on AMPS or DAMPS get to keep their 025 number when they moved to CDMA?

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#926204 2-Nov-2013 11:34

Yabanize: Did customers on AMPS or DAMPS get to keep their 025 number when they moved to CDMA?

No, they killed DAMPS the day before portability started.

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#926219 2-Nov-2013 12:11

richms:
Yabanize: Did customers on AMPS or DAMPS get to keep their 025 number when they moved to CDMA?

No, they killed DAMPS the day before portability started.

Well that kinda sucks :P

People could still have 025 numbers just to make things more interesting

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#926223 2-Nov-2013 12:16

Yabanize: Did customers on AMPS or DAMPS get to keep their 025 number when they moved to CDMA?

How many 025 numbers do you see advertised?

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