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To: gdichaz who wrote (7459)	3/12/2000 10:11:00 AM
From: Randall Knight	Respond to of 13582

Curious what others think about when it would be useful for the Q to be able to supply CDMA/GSM (TDMA) chipsets of various flavors. Right now. You could have global roaming. That takes away a lot of the argument that GSM is the global standard why build any new CDMA networks? Although I hope carriers are seeing the fallicy of that argument I'm sure companies like Nokia are still using it. Also, I believe that it would speed up the adoption of CDMA2000. There would be no need to even consider the theoretical possibility of "W-CDMA" if customers could take advantage of the current GSM network as well as use the high speed data networks on the same handset. Another advantage might be to companies like ATT. They could upgrade infrastructure with CDMA to increase capacity without jeopardizing current customers. This would position them to be ready for 3G while at the same time taking care of current capacity problems.