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To: gdichaz who wrote (28953)	11/15/2002 5:44:25 PM
From: John Biddle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197336

False on its face. cdma2000 is frozen out by the rules of the bureaucrats in current spectrum. I don't believe this is strictly true. It was true for 2G, where CDMA was not allowed by law. For 3G, however, I believe that the vendors had the option of selecting any of the sanctioned standards, and that included CDMA2000. None chose CDMA2000, so the net result has been the same. So far at least. I do not know if these carriers could legally change their mind and switch to a different but similarly sanctioned technology, or what the constraints would be in order to be allowed to do so.