Telstra are encouraging their analog mobile phone users to switch to digital, since the analog system is being dropped at the end of 1999.
Well, to be accurate, there is a ten year old government undertaking to the digital GSM mobile phone industry (all three of them) to drop analog by the end of 1999, but it appears that in some country areas, analog will remain for another six months or so.
Further, most mobile phones are used in city areas, where the range advantage of analog or CDMA is not a factor (indeed, the long range of analog is a positive disadvantage in city areas).
Later this year, the participants in the workshop will serve as resource persons in the national workshops on the same topic to be organized by UNESCO in eight Asian countries.
The EFA is a global initiative that aims to give access to education to everyone in the world.
A four day regional Convention on serving knowledge and infotainment needs of communities in Asia and the Pacific region through ICTs is being organized by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) with UNESCO and ITU support in Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur from 26 to 29 July 2004.
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