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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: engineer who wrote (28746)	11/11/2002 12:28:34 PM
From: John Biddle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197031

no, the GSM1x standard proposed calls out a fallback mode to GSM when no CDMA1x service is available, so EVERY GSM1x phone is a GSM phone. Sorry to be thick, but I want to make sure I have this right. I think I do and that we just mis-communicated, but I want to be sure. I appreciate your forebearance. Are you saying that a GSM1x phone is just a dual mode, GSM / 1x phone, with 1x the primary choice if it or both are available and GSM the fallback if only it is available? If so, that is really nothing special, and fits what I meant, if not what I said, when I said there was nothing special technically about GSM1x to the consumer. A GSM1x phone would work the same in a GSM1x populated geography as would a dual mode GSM/1x phone where there were carriers using each technology but not both, so long as they had roaming agreements. The dual mode GSM1x phone would, in the latter case, have the primary set to whichever technology was used by the user's carrier. Right?