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To: Keith Feral who wrote (106525)	10/8/2001 5:33:04 PM
From: Rajala	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Oh dear. Here we go again. CDMA2000 overlay networks over GSM? Won´t happen. Every GSM operator is going to opt out to WCDMA and they are going the way GSM-GPRS-EDGE-WCDMA. The road is well travelled, large majority of GSM operators already have GPRS core, the EDGE compliant base stations are shipped in large quantities (see AT&T). Each step is upward-downward-backward-inward-and-outward compatible with each other and the phones support backwards every stage. Now imagine someone comes and says, huh, why don´t you buy an CDMA2000 network on top of your GSM. OK so the overlay is expensive and does not fit with the rest of the network at all but the dual-system phones will appear, er, surely, and also there is the possibility that some other operator does the same and you can roam like in Uruguay or somewhere. - rajala