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To: kech who wrote (648)	8/7/1999 4:01:00 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 13582

Your point is well taken, namely, that AT&T/McCaw may have been persuaded by a need to adopt a technology already up and running, albeit with a few performance problems. The other side of the coin, as suggested in my earlier comment, is that they probably never even gave CDMA even second thoughts. The first CDMA system was deployed in Hong Kong, beginning in 1995, I believe. This was soon enough for knowledgable people at AT&T/McCaw to seriously consider an alternative to TDMA. One thing I don't know is how many TDMA subscribers there were around 1996, at which time it was becoming very clear that CDMA was inherently superior to and lower cost than TDMA or GSM systems. I'll bet there weren't all that many subscribers at that point. Art Bechhoefer