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To: Gregg Powers who wrote (9171)	3/10/1998 1:13:00 PM
From: gdichaz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Applause. Cheers. Etc. Very helpful look at real world of CDMA advantages and that GSM and TDMA will continue to grow right alongside (or as base for CDMA air overlay at minimum). Particularly respect your point that analog is still growing. No technology dies overnight. Note role of AM radio which was to have been wiped out by FM. Basic point is still though that over time the very real advantages of CDMA - voice quality - less power demand - etc. give CDMA a leg up. Not a sure winner in all circumstances though. But as there say in tennis "Advantage CDMA". Iridium's decision to make room for CDMA on 2nd generation Iridium is most interesting straw in wind IMO. A favor please. Uuplink on Fool board has asked me to ask on SI whether there is a legal problem to start a CDMA overlay to GSM in Europe given that Euro market is regulated to pure GSM. You of all here might know re technology seems to me. Maybe someone who is up on the European bureaucratic maze might hazard a guess on legal aspects. Help anyone? Why dead silence after success of Vodaphone/Qualcom trials? Chaz

To: Gregg Powers who wrote (9171)	3/10/1998 1:30:00 PM
From: bananawind	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Gregg, Thanks for the reasoned assessment of CDMA's prospects. I really like the phrase "inevitabilities attached to this analysis". But what really gets me all lathered up is even thinking we might one day, some decade of so from now, be patiently explaining on some high-tech-SI-of -the-future (likely having a CDMA air interface) how we just had to focus on those inevitabilities and not get sidetracked. After all, QCOM was the only hundred-bagger in the group. -JLF