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To: dougjn who wrote (9777)	4/12/1998 7:50:00 PM
From: DaveMG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Doug, I'm afraid I don't know the answer, not being a techie type, but if you look at the CDMA Dev. Group's list of US sites the systems are spread mostly throughout the A and B blocks but some in others as well..Maybe someone else could help out? .....BTW, are you not in the US?......Dave

To: dougjn who wrote (9777)	4/12/1998 9:17:00 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

Sprint CDMA and Airtouch CDMA operate on very different frequencies and thus cannot be used interchangeably to roam (unless you have two different types of phones with you and a contract with each carrier). For this reason I have chosen to wait for Airtouch and pay their higher rates. I will have service everywhere I go, although it may revert to analogue rather than CDMA. With Sprint you have no service at all outside of their limited areas of coverage. Airtouch continues to add new cell sites each quarter as they have for years to improve service. Reports that Sprint will be "fully installed" by year end are fanciful. Maybe things will be different in the long run, but as a user I don't appreciate the "market model" for cell phone service in the US. Australia and Europe are a pleasure with much cheaper rates and a single compatible system. In the US, competition has provided us with high rates, incompatible systems, exorbinant roaming charges and less advanced equipment. For a user it sucks, but I'm sure service providers and Republican contribution receivers are pleased. The same nonsense went on in the US for 25 years with land line phone service. Service was provided by two or more incompatible telephone companies. If you had a phone with one service, you could only call those on that service. To reach a person with a phone on a competing phone company, you had to have service with both companies. This is one of the absurd down-sides to a market economy.