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To: kech who wrote (655)8/7/1999 7:44:00 PM
From: moat  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 13582
 
Thanks to everyone for the history lesson. I thought the following statistic was a little bit mind boggling (source: GTR Aug-99, Chart 3):

Today CDMA has more subscribers than GSM had at the end of 1996.

(CDMA w/ 33m 6/99; GSM w/ 32m 12/96. GSM w/ 170m 6/99.
12/96 to 6/99 = 2.5 years.)

Further, the adoption rate of CDMA has been faster than that of GSM (counting from the time the technology started to roll out).

(I need another history lesson, when did GSM roll out start?)

How many CDMA subscribers do we see 2.5 years out? Any volunteers?



To: kech who wrote (655)8/8/1999 3:35:00 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer  Respond to of 13582
 
Tom, thanks for the chronology on TDMA, which clearly was in a more advanced development stage than CDMA at the time that AT&T might have reviewed the matter, in 1993. The need for more channels in some urban areas may have influenced choice of TDMA, but given the time it would have taken to adopt any new technology, a company that was more innovative might well have set up pilot projects to test both systems.


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