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To: The Prophet who wrote (33479)	11/1/1999 5:09:00 AM
From: John Walliker	Respond to of 93625

The Prophet, As for your statement about CDMA being a "different air interface which can happily be grafted onto the GSM," this is simply double-talk. Until GSM lost the battle, these two systems were direct combatants. Now, of course, the GSM crowd wants to make nice and say it's "just an air interface." Are you denying that GSM is a complete infrastructure specification, of which the air interface is but one part? Again, GSM may be everywhere (for now), but recall that "Man is born free; yet he is everywhere in chains." This applies when innovation is stifled by socialist systems of centralized planning. Nice quotation, but what relevance does it have. Until recently, the UK had 6 networks, of which two were analogue, two were required to be GSM and two were left open to the operators (Orange and one2one) to choose the technology. The latter two developed GSM1800. Market forces have resulted in the analogue networks dwindling to almost nothing, while the others are very successful (and compatible now that dual-band handsets are widely available). It is anticipated that half the UK population will have GSM handsets within two years. About then, it is likely that CDMA will start to be used for 3rd generation overlays, still using the GSM infrastructure as a starting point. I believe that QCOM will be very successful, which is why I hold LEAPS calls. It does not mean that it is sweeping GSM away. Except as a compatible overlay, CDMA has zero chance of penetration in Europe because nobody will buy a system that is not compatible with everything already out there. Roaming is tremendously important in Europe. Would you want to have a different handset when you move from one state to another? No, of course not - that's one reason why the US cellular consolidation is happening. Now kindly tell me what is wrong with what I am saying. John