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To: Goodboy who wrote (860)	6/26/1998 12:45:00 PM
From: Carter Patterson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1394

Frank and Goodboy... both of your points are very well taken. I hate to interrupt the discussion with a novice question about bandwidth and future capacities.... QUALCOMM owns and licenses out a digital wireless phone technology called CDMAone. They manufacturer phones, repeaters, towers, etc. all over the world and they compete head on against another technology that AT&T backs called TDMA. The big difference is that CDMA has 10 times the capacity over TDMA. The world has taken to CDMA but the US is primarily TDMA for now with CDMA starting to come on. In the third world and remote areas of the planet, it is easier and less costly to install wireless technology than to run phone lines. My question, is their any merit to using CDMA technology with the Satellite transmissions to increase bandwidth? I'm sure if it can, somebody alot smarter than me would implement it.