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To: JohnG who wrote (33117)6/24/1999 10:23:00 PM
From: slacker711  Read Replies (2) of 152472
 

Instead, they should push toward CDMA 2000 at warp speed and help key wireless operators leave their competitors in the dust. Doing this may well result in forcing some wireless operators to adopt CDMA to remain in the game. Now is the time to press the advantage and not tolerate the competitor's slow movement toward W-CDMA.

Does anybody have any estimates on when CDMA2000 will be a commercially viable system? I think that Qualcomm is supposed to begin sampling of the MSM5000 and CSM5000 by the end of the year. I assume that means they could be shipping in volume sometime in the first half of next year. What else will be needed to have Sprint or DDI/IDO begin putting in CDMA2000? I know a lot of us have assumed that CDMA2000 is well ahead of W-CDMA, but if NTT Docomo actually gets a system up and running by spring of 2001, I'm not so sure. Is everybody just assuming that their date will slip?

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