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19th February 2000 - Copy of an article from the Forbes Advocate stating that the CDMA network is a lemon.

17th February 2000 - Email from Boyd Munro to the Australian Communications Authority regarding their denial of the letter written here.

15th February 2000 - Fax from Senator Bill Heffernan to an APUMP remember regarding his concerns about the CDMA network

7th February 2000 - Letter from APUMP Member to Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the National Party, John Anderson regarding CDMA coverage.

7th February 2000 - analogue closure schedule too secret to be disclosed.  Correspondence from Telstra and the ACA passes the buck but neither will reveal when the remainder of the analogue network will be shut down.

7th February 2000 - APUMP asks the Australian Communication Authority for details of its inquiry into CDMA and analogue coverage.

6th February 2000 - Media release from APUMP commending the NSW National Party's realistic and practical demand that the analogue closure be halted

4th February 2000 - Media release from the NSW National Party calling on the Federal Government to halt the closure of analogue until there is equal coverage from CDMA

1st February 2000 - Letter from Senator Jocelyn Newman to a Tasmanian constituent justifying the analogue closure

31st January 2000 - Letters by John & Carol Richard to the ABC Morning Show, The Australian Newspaper and the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission

31st January 2000 - Item from the Toowoomba Chronicle 'CDMA Useless - Burn victim says new system left him stranded' 

31st January 2000 - Transcript of a radio report about a young boy dying after an accident on the NSW Central Coast in an area of no mobile phone coverage. 

20th January 2000 - Blaming Labor instead of fixing the problem - a fax from the Leader of the National Party, John Anderson, to analogue users justifying his party's failure to keep the analogue network in service until there is a satisfactory replacement

18th January 2000 - National Party MP Bob Katter's Media Release entitled "CDMA is cutting bush productivity".  Bob is the first government MP to have the guts to admit that his Party's decision to close the analogue network is a disaster for its own members and supporters.

15th January 2000 - Deputy Prime Minister's Media Release entitled "Munro and Telstra Need Reality Check: Anderson"

14th January 2000 - Ominous letter from the Australian Communications Authority to a member of APUMP.

1st January 2000 - analogue network is shut down.  There is no adequate replacement in those areas of regional Australia which are affected.  National Party pretends there is no problem.

31st December, 1999 - Email to Boyd Munro from Deputy Prime Minister, John Andersons office and a reply from Boyd Munro regarding closure of the Analogue Phone Network.

31st December, 1999 - final appeal from mobile phone users to John Anderson (Leader of the National Party) falls on deaf ears.  80% of Australia's analogue network is closed only hours later.

17th December, 1999 - APUMP calls on the Federal Government to defer the closure of the analogue network to 6th February 2001 because it is clear there is no adequate replacement.