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To: Raymond who wrote (7834)	2/1/1998 9:41:00 AM
From: brian h	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Raymond, The second part of article from American Network: americasnetwork.com You claim: "The only thing I have heard is that they have said is that the standard is not mature enough and that it doesn't give any extra compared to GSM for example.But many years ago they said that they saw CDMA as a promising candidate for the future next generation systems." Are you saying current GSM system is good enough to roll through year 2001 and all a sudden pass a torch to WCDMA because the promising WCDMA standard (a compromised "Europe only; R&D costs unknown; no guarantee works until proven) become mature to replace current GSM syatem? What an argument! Why do they have to go throgh such a hassle to get a compromised stanard? Why not caliming a promising 3g global GSM system and still claiming CDMA system an inmature one? I guess ERICY is as flexible as Ramsey.<ggg> Brian H.

To: Raymond who wrote (7834)	2/1/1998 10:49:00 AM
From: qdog	Respond to of 152472

What system is GSM a basis of? Traditional wireline digital telelphony? Or is it Analog cellular? Oh that was the basis for wireline digital TDMA telephony.. I'm NOT going to wade through the Ericsson's story. I've read in numerous periodicals. I heard their speeches about how wonderful GSM is vs. CDMA. I've read and heard the attacks wage over the past few years. Yes Ericsson did claim CDMA would not work based on their inability as the "world leader" in telecommunications. Yet they give me a stale copy of traditional digital telephony that is over 25 years old that is tweaked to work in a mobile enivironment. Some leadership. Billions of dollars are recently spent to deploy wireless int he past 2 years and in 4 more that capital investment will be render worthless. Then their will be rush to deploy, at even higher cost, the next wonderful multimedia system at 2 Ghz. IBM mentality? You don't know me well enough to lay that crap on me, while I have been an early supporter of CDMA as opposed to the flatworld mentality of Ericsson pushing a stale, uninnovated standard on the world. Now you seem to think all these GSM systems recently deployed will be systematically replaced in 2002 by E/N/J-CDMA? Right. Sounds like the get rich Wintel philosphy of instant obosolence. Why should ERicsson care if companies recover cost and turn a profit, just so long as they do. Yeah that's the Bill Gate's philosophy. You sound the panicker crying of QCOM is finnihed and a one time wonder. Hardly the case. LMDS systems that will be deployed inthe US will be a CDMA. Whether it will be Ericsson's, Japans or whomever will remain to be seen. The whole issue of mobile multimedia will have vastly change by the time Ericsson rips the world off again with this standard.