<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/188ffaeb-3c6a-4047-b749-5e9c8506ce1e/DBF901E5-1902-4AA7-8FE5-A81A524F87FA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory12n.htm" href="http://www.nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory12n.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nenews.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory12n.htm"><P>TELSTRA is stoutly defending its Next G network against claims from district residents who believe the new system is not as good as the CDMA network it is replacing.</p> <P>A spokesperson for Sophie Mirabella (MHR, Indi) this week said her office had been receiving complaints from farmers who said that they were not getting as good a service from the new network.</p> <P>Wine growers in the King Valley and Milawa district residents were among those claiming they had been better served by CDMA.</p> <P>However, Telstra Countrywide regional general manager, Robert Bell, said the new service was at present at least as good as CDMA.</p> <P>And he said that as the construction of new data transmission towers continued, coverage would improve, and people outside the main rural population areas could enjoy all the benefits offered by Next G.</p> <P>"<B>A new tower at North Wangaratta is to be commissioned any day now, but there is no doubt that in the bush, some of the new phones perform much better than others,</B>" he said.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DBF901E5-1902-4AA7-8FE5-A81A524F87FA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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