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To: slacker711 who wrote (10574)2/21/2001 2:12:41 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (2) of 13572
 
Hi slacker,

Since I have only limited expertise in wireless communications, I must defer to your better informed perspective. That said, I'm wondering about your thoughts on how the future development of 2.5G and 3G systems will shake out in view of the fact that GSM systems seem to have a clear evolutionary path through EDGE, GPRS and UMTS (if I understand this correctly) and that each of these steps is incremental to existing service providers. While on the other hand, to abruptly shift to the Q*-CDMA migration path means that most of the service providers on the planet would be required to throw out their existing plant, and start all over again. That seems to me to be a high hurdle that Q* faces. I know the bean counters at the SPs are loathe to spend any money that would ruin the depreciation schedules on existing infrastructure, and rightly so. I'd be interested in your views.

Best, Ray :)
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