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To: CRay33 who wrote (49768)	8/22/2000 5:15:34 PM
From: wlheatmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 63513

CRay,,,thanks for your input.... a couple of questions from a guy off the street. europeans are ahead of the US in terms of their wireless usage. GSM seem to be more than adequate to help them progress to this point. are you saying that CDMA is almost 20 times faster? if so, is that like saying CDMA is 20 times as fast as the speed of light and GSM is only as fast as the speed of light? is GSM insufficient for future technological use and is it going to become obsolete? why is there a holy war between these two standards if one is so much better? why fight it? does anyone own the patents on GSM? is anyone benefiting from maintaining a GSM standard? if wireless devices become the rage, how does CDMA or GSM fit into that? will it matter? thanks.