AustDave wrote:Ok guys and girls here is the low down.
Sorry to spoil your fun dave, but you are horribly wrong on a couple of points there.
CDMA stands for 'code division multiple access' and it's a fully digital system. No, you can't listen to it on a scanner
Telstra announced a while back that CDMA will be slowly phased out and replaced with an Australia wide 3rd generation mobile system (3G), providing streaming video, audio and broadband-type data speeds to customers Australia wide. This is one good thing that will finally bring reasonably priced broadband to the bush.
The only form of 'phones' that you can recieve on a scanner is an analog cordless, which is around 30mhz FM. It's not legal to listen to those, as you have stated.
I'm not 100% sure about the monitoring of a PSTN call patched into a normal radio system (eg, Seaphone etc) however there doesn't appear to be a massive amount of that in use anyhow.