Something which has had me wondering for some time now is why doesn't Telecom just migrate people off landlines and onto 027!! (or similar wireless, see below)

CDMA has the network capacity, is cheap to implement and supports data as good as dial-up over a wide range (and even much quicker though that might flood the network)

Handsets are cheap to give away even (from $99) and provides one phone, one solution! and would alow significant cost savings for Telecom especially in rural areas

They could tear up all the copper wires and sell the metal, tear out all that enreliable physical NEAX's and data equipment sitting in exchange buildings and issue everyone with 027 phones and be done! it would not cost them any more and most proably less as CDMA is cheap to maintain and hardly goes wrong due to the no physical wires. The only thing Telecom would need to do is have landline equiv termination rates to mobiles.

The only stopper for CDMA is large scale broadband but even that's easily done with wireless (again bypassing wires) or possibly overengineering the CDMA network.

Then I see the future in 5-7 years time as a handset just working like my woosh phone unit, only just like a mobile of today. Gives data access + a very good VoIP over one wireless network, no circuit switching involved :-)

I have even heard we are guinea pigs (Woosh is first with this technology) for something rather big to come.

Comments and thoughts please!