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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Incorporated (QCOM)
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To: brian h who wrote (8242)2/9/1998 2:38:00 AM
From: Elroy Jetson  Read Replies (1) of 152472
 
Yes, I used a Motorola GSM Startac in Australia.

CDMA clearly has the lead over GSM in bandwidth utilization. But from the users standpoint all you get with CDMA is a bigger phone that costs more.

If Qualcomm doesn't co-opt super-GSM before investments are made, we will end up in a cell-phone hell of two incompatible standards. Of course there's always Iridium/Globalstar etc if you don't mind paying $1.50 a minute. Oh yes, there's RBOCs like PacTel offering GSM phones on PCS which offers the same spotty coverage as Sprint CDMA PCS, but your phone is still useless overseas (I guess I just don't visit Korea often enough to notice).

I think Qualcomm could make almost ANY concession to make sure CDMA, not super-GSM, is the successor to GSM and come out ahead financially. I just hope they don't overplay their hand and screw themselves and every cell phone user in the world.
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