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To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (654)	8/7/1999 5:41:00 PM
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It is funny ow this thread goes on about some stuff.... It was AT&T who sponsored the first CDMA development. True, they did want to get on with the TDMA stuff, but the AT&T camp was divided by the McCaw group who wanted TDMA and the Bell Labs guys who wanted CDMA. Eventually, Bell Labs was split out as Lucent as the Craig McCaw group got their way. TDMA was not even out there in the field when CDMA was tested as of 1991. If any of you had been at the DEc 7, 1991 CTIA meetings you would have witnessed the total shock on the TDMA camps face when Dr. Jacobs annouced that CDMA had been sucessfully demonstrated in a large scale field trial and was "the only fully tested digital standard out there at the time". What happened after that was the TDMA camp decided to hold a giant meeting in January, spent something like $10M on a push to squash CDMA, lobbied the CTIA to make damm sure that Qualcomm had to get their CDMA stuff approved as a standard before any equipment was delivered, so this set CDMA back 18 months beofre the carriers were ready to adopt the CDMA for use. In the early phases of TDMA, they rushed it out the door so that they could "get out there first", and in doing so sealed the fate of TDMA such that it failed in all markets except AT&T. the phones and the burst equalizer did not work, they could not get over 2 times analog cpapcity, and the voice quality was terrible. but they got there first and they got CDMA delayed. I doubt that you will much of this in any magazine articles of the times...

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