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To: straight life who wrote (4876)	11/22/2000 12:44:05 AM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) of 196516

"AT&T now uses a digital cellular phone technology called TDMA, or time division multiple access, which is compatible with DoCoMo's W-CDMA, analysts said. " huh? Isn't that totally untrue? Completely and totally untrue.... I wonder how T is going to handle the transition to W-CDMA. If everything goes to schedule (doubtful) W-CDMA/GSM terminals arent going to be available until the beginning of 2002. I would imagine that the soonest that W-CDMA/TDMA terminals would be available would probably be at least 9 months to a year later. This would mean that T would be AT LEAST a year and half behind PCS/Verizon. I guess they could start building out a GPRS infrastructure immediately....however this would also require GPRS/TDMA handsets. This would probably be at least a year away if development began immediately. T would then require W-CDMA GPRS/TDMA handsets in 2003. The other option would be a W-CDMA/analog handset as soon as possible....this seems pretty moronic since most users would be roaming on analog much of the time. This would then require more spectrum....which would kill the advantages of CDMA. I'm really not exactly sure how T can handle the transition....it seems like they have no good options. The funny part is that I might just be ignoring the hardest part of the equation for T....what spectrum will they use? They could have a W-CDMA/TDMA handset that would require 700/800/1900MHz to operate. Frightening.... Slacker

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