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Tom, Ramsey, qdog, techies, hell the whole thread: help!.. I got myself in a little bit of a jam over on the SI LOR board. Seems that a guy who is long Iridium zipped on over and blasted me and some other guys by saying that GlobalStar's CDMA advantage over Iridium's Rotomola TDMA weren't no big thing. Well those guys over there don't know that I don't know a photon from a door stop, so I lobbed a few techno-grenades over the fence, and now he has the audacity to challenge my cocktail party EE degree of all the nerve. So if you all could bail me out, I'd be grateful. I told him that CDMA, based on installed systems under load (pretty cool huh?) were showing a capacity advantage over the evil empire of some 3 to 7 times, i.e., that our spectral advantage (way cool) allowed us to handle 3 to 7 times as many phone calls on a G* transponder versus the Iridium. Well, he came back and said that he thought that 3 to 7 times was over ANALOG systems, and that CDMA had nothing like that superiority over TDMA/GSM, and to make matters worse, challenged me to provide FACTUAL back-up for my assertion. Well God knows I hate all this fact stuff personally, but I do know where to go in a pinch: the Mighty Q lonely hearts club thread (down 3, have a Scotch). So, who wants to jump in here and flame this heathen back to Illinois with you know what on his tassles? By the way, I also mentioned that I thought we (CDMA) were getting better as "we" tweaked our systems up the learning curve (beyond cool) and that ultimately Jacobs' claims of 10 to 20 times superiority would be borne out. I promise I'll never do this again, but it sure would be a hoot to nail this wonk, particularly if, by total chance, I happen to have gotten it right. Cheers, Mike Doyle |
