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To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (654)8/7/1999 4:26:00 PM
From: kech  Read Replies (2) of 13582
 
Art -I'm in my office so I looked up some more info on the dates and relative "availability" of TDMA and CDMA.

I have a business case of McCaw in 1990 trying to decide which technology to use. At that time, TDMA was approved in 1989 and McCaw was expecting TDMA to be available by 1991. In January 1991, LA Cellular Telephone, a joint venture of 60% owned by Bell South and 40% owned by LIN Broadasing plased the first order for TDMA infrastructure. In May 1991, Southwestern Bell and McCaw Cellular anounced a JV to establish Cellular One as a standardized brand in cellular phone service. The Southwestern Bell president said at this time that TDMA was at final lockdown while CDMA was "unproven" and claimed that CDMA threatened to slow the industries move to digital. In Dec 1991, Southwestern Bell announced it would deploy TDMA in 1992 in Chicago, Dallas, Washington, Baltimore and Boston. In August 1993, ATT bought McCaw for $12.6 billion in an all stock transaction.
Contrast this timing to PrimeCo finally turning on CDMA systems in November 1996. Those were long years from 93-96 with a lot of white knuckles as the press would announce market share gains for the TDMA crowd.
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