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To: 49thMIMOMander who wrote (10218)	3/30/2001 6:26:51 PM
From: Quincy	Read Replies (1) of 34857

Ilmarinen, I'm not sure what that sentence really means, first in terms of what?? first in worst or first in best or first in most or first in least or first in time,etc,etc?? I no longer accept your issue with CDMA cell sites "breathing" when all future upgrades for GSM will sport the same feature. The rest of your post fails to show me WCDMA works. There is a significant difference in time needed to complete link setup between TDMA systems and CDMA. UMTS tries to feign cost-effectiveness by relegating several mobile stations to different time slots on the same mod/demod back at the base station. A CDMA air interface has no business featuring time slots any more than a Corvette needs 40 trucks. Nokia has been designing and manufacturing IS95 chips and handsets for more than 5 years. With all that experience, can anyone demonstrate a working asynchronous handoff structure? What efforts were required before GSM systems could use all time slots in a channel? "As well as the unfortunate decision to continue the AMPS system with the somewhat compatible DAMPS (US-TDMA) system, instead of breaking free of analog systems and building a new digital system." Perhaps if Nokia and Ericsson would have sold AT&T and Cingular GSM equipment at a price which allowed them to start from scratch, they wouldn't have chosen DAMPS. Then we can all scream about GSM capacity problems on both sides of the hemisphere. The US could have followed Japan's lead on HDTV and used their MUSE system. We chose our own path. While it took us 8 years to get it to market, we learned in the meantime that the market has not yet developed to justify any investment. It accounts for 3% market penetration today. It appears we failed to rush right out and replace all our IS41-based equipment for European GSM equipment. In the end it all worked out. IS41 upgrades featuring Qualcomm technology don't share the same drawbacks of GSM upgrades and enjoy a significant time to market lead. Our failure to use your world standard turned out to be a damn good idea after all.

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