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To: Raymond who wrote (12461)	7/16/1998 11:45:00 AM
From: Walter Liu	Respond to of 152472

Raymond: There is this joke (totally incorrect in my belief)"God creat the world in seven days because He does not need to consider backward compatibility" GSM, for historical, political, and bussiness reasons, did not want to support AMPS. So no US Cellular carrier choose GSM when they want to upgrade to digital network. Nokia and Ericssion lost the business to CDMA. Now Ericssion's WCDMA is not going to be compatible with CDMAOne, again Ericssion and Nokia will lose the business when the US Cellular want to offer wideband service to their customers. You mentioned Latin America, and also big part of Asia. Ericssion and Nokia did not want to compete with AMPS when they knew they could not, they were behind. So they jump ahead with better but riskier technology, gamble it will pan out. They want to repeat the formula with WCDMA, but I am afraid this time it is not that easy. Ericssion is totally wrong when it said CDMA would never work, yeah, now they said it invented CDMA. Shameless company and serve its own purpose.

To: Raymond who wrote (12461)	7/16/1998 12:34:00 PM
From: gdichaz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Thank you for the upgrade from analogue (analog to us) info that an upgrade from analogue to CDMA is not technically an overlay. Learned something as I always do here as a tech deprived person. But the list at the end of your msg strengthens my main point. Where there is a free choice, that choice is CDMA. The Europe examples are moot since CDMA is frozen out by the cabals, the politicians in return for support - personal perhaps from the Scandinavians (?) et al and the other corporate giants with deep pockets, and the bureaucrats who love to keep maximum control for themselves for socialistic ideological purposes perhaps but maybe more for personal profit purposes. (Of course nothing in the previous sentence could possibly be true - just my musings - wrong most likely). Egypt and the West Bank/Gaza as major examples of new systems? I repeat again (Tero ?) where is a new system for GSM anywhere which counts for future growth? Am I alone in figuring this is a major sign of movement toward CDMA? Frankly am astonished at silence on the part of multiple posters here on this subject. Chaz