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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (3765)8/25/1997 11:26:00 AM
From: DWB   of 152472
 
Maurice,

Not to argue the merits of the situation one way or another, but you do realize that in the context of one paragraph you condemned Ericsson for sticking with the status quo and not believing in CDMA, then no more than 2 sentences later started spouting the same stuff yourself with regard to GSM.

There is no wisdom behind TDMA/GSM in the sense you mean. It is called "don't rock the boat", "damn this new fangled gadget", "status quo", "lack of imagination" "fear of failure" "it'll never work" "it's never been done before" etc etc. Ericsson could not make CDMA work, did not believe it would work and put all their eggs in one GSM basket. Then dreamed up a version of broadband CDMA in panic. Now that they think they might fail at that, they come up with this "wideband" narrowband pulsed GSM effort. Which is also hogwash. They can't do wideband GSM. It is not wideband. It is lots of individual soundproofed channels stuck together. It'll never work. It's never been done before and they should stick with the status quo; tried and tested CDMA.

I'm also wondering why Ericsson always gets beat up for the "all the eggs in 1 basket" argument, but Qualcomm (who only have CDMA) don't take any heat for the same thing.....

DWB
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