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To: David E. Taylor who wrote (95407)3/8/2001 8:56:32 AM
From: foundation  Respond to of 152472
 
"...There's been some speculation in the past 6 months that a major US carrier, possibly Cingular, the BS/SBC wireless venture, would switch over to CDMA..."

No new news here...

Cingular announced its intentions to do GSM as early as November 2000:

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To: David E. Taylor who wrote (95407)3/8/2001 9:24:09 AM
From: Keith Feral  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 152472
 
There has been no legitimate speculation about TDMA carriers in the US going converting to CDMA, at this point. All of the speculation has been centered on South America. In the US, it has been widely rumored that NXTL would switch to CDMA.



To: David E. Taylor who wrote (95407)3/8/2001 9:31:08 AM
From: q_long  Respond to of 152472
 
<<> The GTE network was CDMA and will be switched to GSM, so there'll be no near term CDMA revenues from this carrier.>>

Gte has only a small 1900 mgz CDMA network in Seattle and Cinci. It would not be interoperable SBC really had no choice. Verizon would have aquired these markets in the merger except they already had more robust 800 mgz CDMA networks