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To: elmatador who wrote (10996)	11/2/2006 10:45:25 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 217942

ElM, you might be confusing 3GSM aka W-CDMA aka UMTS with GSM which is a completely different thing. People using GSM are not getting any mobile cyberspace. They get only text and talking. If they use GPRS, they are using QCOM technology, albeit not paying for it. 3GSM/W-CDMA/UMTS are all CDMA air interface, NOT TDMA/GSM. I doubt that Vivo is going to go back to obsolete technology, so I think you could say they are building a GSM electronics back end system, with a CDMA air interface to make it into 3GSM so people can do more than text and voice [GPRS can do some data, but slow and expensive]. The 3GSM CDMA air interface can be upgraded to HSDPA which is also CDMA and QCOM is ahead on the ASICs for that. Mqurice