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To: KyrosL who wrote (7657)	8/24/2001 1:33:55 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Kyros, you are confusing correlation with causation. The main reason the USA has lower cellphone use than a few other countries is because the USA has the person receiving the call paying the bill. People don't like that. It reduces the value of their phones to them. In other countries the person making the call pays. If QUALCOMM hadn't invented mobile CDMA, you are right, the USA could have used single standard tin cans and string for all of eternity. That would not make a better country. It would not improve the economy. Because tin cans and string are not only inefficient but expensive, the USA would have had even fewer people using cellphones than now. CDMA has given the USA high quality phones and cheap prices and cheaper minutes and more to come, with data and bells on too. If QUALCOMM didn't exist, most handsets in the USA would be sold by Nokia and they would be GSM. That would make the USA much poorer. Ericsson, Siemens, Alcatel would also be selling a lot. CDMA saved the USA. Those are specious arguments you made which are commonly believed. They are a type of urban myth, which seem to gain credence through repetition. Feeling grumpy, [I need a few days in warm air and sunshine] Mqurice