Radio, TV and press mentions of mobile phones and APUMP

1. November, 30 1998. MELBOURNE GOLD 104. Analogue phone phase out plans have been finalised by the Federal Government and mobile phone carriers with Federal Communications Minister Richard Alston naming the date.
2. November, 30 1998. PERTH 6WF Radio News. The Federal Government has reached agreement with the three mobile phone carriers to extend the phase-out of the existing analogue system.
3. November, 30 1998. CANBERRA 2RN Radio News. The Federal Government has reached agreement with the three mobil phone carriers to extend the phase out of the existing analogue system.
4. November, 30 1998. CANBERRA 2CN Radio News. The Federal Government has reached agreement with the three mobil phone carriers to extend the phase out of the existing analogue system.
5. November, 30 1998. BRISBANE 4QR Radio News. The Federal Government has reached agreement with the three mobile phone carriers to extend the phase out of the existing analogue system.
6. November, 30 1998. MELBOURNE 3LO Radio News The Federal Government has resolved an analogue phase out with the three mobile phone carriers.
7. November, 30 1998. SYDNEY 2CH Radio News. Australia's three telephone companies will allow an extra 12 months to phase out the analogue mobile phone network in the bush. Federal Communications Minister, Richard Alston: ... it will be delayed 12 months.
8. November, 30 1998. SYDNEY 2GB Radio News. Australia's three telephone companies will allow an extra 12 months to phase out the analogue mobile phone network in the bush. Federal Communications Minister, Richard Alston: ... it will be delayed 12 months.
9. November, 30 1998. MELBOURNE FOX FM Radio News. Analogue mobile phone owners will have up to an extra year of service.
10. November, 30 1998. MELBOURNE 3MMM Radio News. Analogue mobile phone owners will be able to use their phones up to 12 months longer.
11. November, 30 1998. SYDNEY 2CH Radio News. Rural users of analogue mobile phones will be able to continue using their phones for another 12 months. Federal Communications Minister, Richard Alston: ... the carriers ought to be congratulated.
12. November, 30 1998. TRIPLE J Radio News. The Federal Government has reached agreement with the three mobile phone carriers to extend the faze out of the existing analogue system. Federal Communications Minister Richard Alston: ... there will be 135 of those pay stations which will close on the 31st of December 1999 ... at least 138 by the end of June ... and the remainder by the end of the year 2000
13. November, 19 1998. MELBOURNE 3AW. Jeff, male talkback caller regarding any topic: ... problem with the mobile phones ... swapped from the analogue to the digital through Optus ... nothing but problems with the phone ... got them to ring me on a Telstra phone ... it's a Nokia.
14. November, 9 1998. ABC MT GAMBIER. Kevin Phillips, national general manager, Telstra Mobile Net: ... next generation mobile phone has much wider capability than old analogue or current digital system
15. November, 5 1998. SYDNEY 2SM Radio News. A new report has found almost one million Australians using analog mobile phones are unaware the network will be shut down next year.
16. November, 6 1998. SYDNEY 2WS-FM Radio News. New research reveals one million Australians using analogue mobile phones are unaware that the network will close at the end of next year
17. November, 5 1998. ADELAIDE 5AA Radio News. A new report from the Australian Communications Authority has found almost one million Australians using analogue mobile phone have no idea the network will be shut down at the end of next year. The report says there is widespread ignorance about the government's plans to replace the analogue service with a digital system.
18. November, 6 1998. TAMWORTH 2TM. A new survey shows one in three country residents have no idea about the closure of the analogue mobile phone network at the end of next year.

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