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To: John Biddle who wrote (28737)	11/11/2002 10:55:49 AM
From: engineer	Read Replies (2) of 197027

the only reason they would be denied roaming contracts is if the companies locked them out. In the US, this is anti-trust... There is no reason that a GSM1x phone could not support GSM also, since it contains all the major pieces to do GSM. RUIM card, GSM stacks and roaming tables, and the GSM frequency range. With ZIF technology, there is no reason that QCOM could not provide a GSM1x and GSM/1x phone all in the same package. The GSM1x standard proposed by Qualcomm calls out GSM as a fallback mode. It would also not make sense for the GSM carrier to obsolete all the GSM phones and equipment out on the network, so GSM would still exist as an underlying network protocol. When VZ put in CDMA, they took the older analog out to the lower use areas and extended coverage. I cannot imagine that QCOM would not have a GSM fallback mode in the phone for when the person traveled outside the GSM1x area and into a older GSM based area. Thus the statements about no roaming are pure FUD.

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