Rogers Wireless announced last week that nearly 200,000 former TDMA/analogue customers have made the switch to GSM in advance of the May 31, 2007 turndown.

On January 10, 2007, Rogers announced that it would be turning down its older TDMA and analogue networks effective May 31, 2007 and move the remaining customers on these older networks onto its advanced GSM network. TDMA and analogue customers were advised that they would keep their existing phone numbers and service plans after the transition and have been provided a free GSM phone.

Rogers is urging those few remaining TDMA and analogue subscribers through a variety of means - including by mail, text message and call redirect - to make the easy switch before the end of May 2007 to begin enjoying Canada's most advanced and reliable network and avoid any inconvenience.

Yup cant wait myself for the D-Day.
I plan to keep my Analogue phone powered on watching the signal closely, just like I did back almost a year ago when they dismantled fido's Nortel GSM equiptment. Watching the phone go from Service to No service.

On another note, I'm proud to see 200,000 people took the FREE GSM phone offer. People may not understand this, but its like a Highway with one lane dedicated for old/slow cars and 5 lanes dedicated for normal highway driving. A old/slow car drives once a month using the dedicated lane, but the other lanes are constantly busy driving fast. remove the old cars, give them a nice newer modern & fast car, move the dedicated lane and integrate it with the existing 5-lane highway and now you have 6-highway lanes for ALL car drivers.

More lanes = more traffic flow.

To follow the anology - the old lane ends up being many times wider than a new lane (or the old cars are lots wider), so instead of now having 1 extra lane, there are many many more extra lanes - particularly removing the analogue piece.

Exactly, An analog call is probaly the equivalent capacity of probaly 30 or more gsm calls at once. that one lane now just turned into a whole new highway for GSM powered Vehicles. And people wondered what we were doing about the network busies situation? well it was inevitable, we had to do something so shut down amps.

make that 3 TDMA, 7 GSM or 9 CDMA in one analog channel.

-gmd