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MOT & GSM Mfrs Developing TDMA/CDMA Wireless Standard
At biz.yahoo.com sits a story of potential interest to NXTL shareholders. I don't pretend to understand it, and would appreciate your thoughts.
Unless I misunderstand, NXTL actually uses TDMA technology in its system. Does this mean that NXTL will be eventually able to offer CDMA compatable communications on its existing network, interfacing legacy TDMA handsets, CDMA handsets and dual-mode TDMA/CDMA handsets over the same network?
Does this also offer NXTL an opportunity to penetrate Europe, Eastern Europe and Russia with its expertise in such networks for workgroups, as that region develops a next-generation wireless demand?
A few paragraphs from the press release follow.
Doug (long NXTL)
"ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 22, 1997-- Motorola, Inc. said today that it plans to work with Siemens AG and four other leading GSM manufacturers to develop a next generation wireless standard for Europe that combines key elements of both Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) cellular technologies. "
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"This proposed standard, known as FRAMES 1B, uses CDMA signal spreading techniques to enhance the capacity offered by conventional TDMA technology. Digitized voice and data would be transmitted on a 1.6 megahertz-wide channel using time-segmented TDMA technology. Each
time slot of the TDMA channel would be individually coded using CDMA technology, thus supporting multiple users per time slot."
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<i."''The FRAMES 1B proposal meets our GSM customers' requirements for an efficient, cost-effective upward migration from their current technology to third-generation systems and handsets,'' said Adrian Nemcek, corporate vice president and general manager of Motorola's European Cellular Infrastructure Group. ''An important advantage of a combined CDMA and TDMA system is that it will meet those requirements and provide a high quality, high capacity vehicle for wireless voice, data and video.''
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