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To: w molloy who wrote (9243)4/25/2000 7:01:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 13582
 
Chaz, on backward compatibility of the DS-CDMA types, as long as they fit on top of GSM core, they are in business. The core of an old network could be swapped over to the new spectrum, but I doubt that would be done in many places. I imagine that demand will be so high that voice-only customers will go onto the old networks and WWeb/Voice customers would go onto the 3G networks.

I don't believe that old networks will close any time soon, other than perhaps the analogue networks as is happening in Australia. GSM will survive for quite a few years and new spectrum will be some version of CDMA with a GSM core in many cases such as, apparently, DoCoMo and European plans.

But let's wait and see what Vodafone does with their new 3G spectrum in the UK.

WM, re <Either people have you on 'ignore' or they grasp of history is sadly lacking. > Or people can't write about everything they disagree with or this thread would have 10 million posts by now. I doubt many took seriously the idea that there was ever more than a small number of Christians in Japan. It was news to me that they were mostly in Nagasaki. Irony!

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