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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates
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To: 100cfm who wrote (26647)6/22/2000 12:08:00 PM
From: StockHawk  Read Replies (2) of 54805
 
>>Nokia is beginning visibly suffer in the U.S. due to its lack of any CDMA handsets<<

My personal experience:

My wife had a Nokia cellphone on AT&T's TDMA network. She chose AT&T because their coverage area for our home base was much better than the coverage areas offered by others. That's because we live close to a state border and other carriers use that as a split point. That meant that whenever she was over the state line she would incur long distance and/or roaming charges.

But the calls on AT&T were awful. Most broke up during conversations, many were disconnected and some just never got through. On the last call she made to me it sounded like she was crying or having trouble talking. she wasn't, it was just the bad connection, clipping the words, but for a moment before I realized it was the phone and not her I got very concerned. After the call was dropped and she called back she was able to assure me that she was OK. I assured her she would not be using that phone much longer. Two days later we walked out of a Bell Atlantic office with an Audiovox CDMA phone. It is incredibly better. Clear calls, no drops, just some occasional static. It costs a bit more because of the coverage areas mentioned above but it is sure worth it.

Fortunately, as a reader of this board I knew about the advantages of CDMA vs. TDMA. Otherwise I would not have realized that there was a better alternative. AT&T and others offering TDMA in my area, such as SNET, proudly state in their ads that they use the most advanced air interface. But eventually the word gets out.

StockHawk

PS. We donated that Nokia phone to a crisis intervention/domestic violence support group that was collecting unwanted cell phones in Grand Central Station in NYC. I hope whoever gets it has better luck with it.
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