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To: John Stichnoth who wrote (6887)	4/22/2000 5:18:00 PM
From: axial	Respond to of 12823

John, thanks for your response. This "posturing" is obscuring the facts. Obviously, CDMA is not going away, nor is GSM. I think there are two aspects to the question: 1 - In the near term, what will be the relative market shares of GSM and CDMA? 2 - When PCS bandwidth becomes saturated, which of these two technologies will most efficiently use available spectrum? This gets into the FDM/TDM debate, and the dynamic allocation of bandwidth. But it also (to my mind) has implications for provider revenues, before the point of saturation is reached. As regards bit rate, my understanding is that EDGE is predicted at 384Kbps up. 2 Mbps down - but that is for a single user, under ideal conditions, at the centre of the cell. I recall somewhat similar figures for HDR, but I'm not sure of that at all. I'll research it tonight. Thanks for your thoughts, John. I have this naive belief that this sort of dialogue may find us, one day and unexpectedly, at the truth. Regards, Jim