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To: JohnG who wrote (46007)	10/24/1999 11:56:00 PM
From: engineer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

The GSM system has a high power output, like 600 mW all the time. I do not know much about the system.

To: JohnG who wrote (46007)	10/25/1999 8:35:00 AM
From: Clarksterh	Respond to of 152472

John - I also have seen reports on this thread that the new GSM data transmission scheme radiates much more power than GSM voice. This is to be expected. If, while everything else stays the same, bandwidth increases, then RF power used will increase. This is true of CDMA as well. The big advantage of CDMA is that when you have nothing to transmit, you don't transmit anything, and thus for bursty traffic CDMA saves RF power. GPRS is trying to do some of the same things with TDMA technology which is difficult at best. I have no idea how successful they are, but apparently not very. Not completely surprising. Clark