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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (14698)	9/8/1998 8:45:00 PM
From: Asterisk	Read Replies (1) of 152472

Tero: Thank you for clearing up that you think that only certain Americans are Xenophobes, I think that there is that loser section in every country. As for who has chosen CDMA and who hasn't I think you better do some research. Besides the Crooked Chinese deals who has won in the choosing of greenfield applications (i.e. starting from scratch)? I think that you will find that in areas where GSM and CDMA have competed head to head for new systems (not merely expansions) that CDMA has won hands down. Forget Japan, China, Korea, and Europe those are special cases where the government for whatever reasons has said that all systems must be of a certain type (CDMA or GSM), or the decisions were corrupt. In markets where the choices have been open the companies have clearly chosen CDMA more often (dare I cay much more often) than GSM. Take South and Central America. Many many countries are beginning the buildout of new digital cell phone systems the last I heard their choices were relatively uncorrupted by money or politics and more have chosen CDMA than have chosen TDMA or GSM. Take Australia, last we heard from Mr. Winn they for the most part have chosen CDMA. Even Hutchison who had both CDMA and GSM systems chose CDMA (I think). Basically the message is this: When the playing field is level and bereft of overbearing government influence or monetary bribery CDMA is chosen much more often than GSM and TDMA for greenfield applications. BTW: two things, I tend to agree about SOME of the politicians in the US congress. They can appear to be fairly closed minded and old fashioned (like the KKK). But it is really bad to judge people based on the vocal minority. I am glad that you didn't. Second the reason that GSM wasn't chosen for Japan, the last I heard, was that ARIB only let IS-95 in and not GSM.

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