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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (17478)10/31/1998 1:52:00 PM
From: SKIP PAUL  Read Replies (2) of 152472
 
Both India and China with their 2 billion people
are breaking for GSM


In the case of India that is not factual. While the operators in the major cities are GSM (because they predated CDMAone) these operators are doing very poorly because of the high tariffs required with GSM systems. In fact CDMA based WLL subscribers will outnumber GSM subscribers next year and chances are that competitive mobile CDMA operators are going to spring up in most cities early next year.

BOTTOM LINE IS THAT GSM IS SIMPLY NOT ECONOMICAL COMPARED TO CDMA AND WILL BE GRADUALLY REPLACED. That is a hard fact for you to accept but that is simply how markets work.
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