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To: Clarksterh who wrote (15359)	9/22/1998 9:55:00 PM
From: marginmike	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Clark I agree with your assesement,but CDMA isnt evaporating overnight. Qualcomm is at a point where think its safe to say itll be arround awhille. I also think GSM is done, and will be obsolete due to the ability of WCDMA overlapp. There are already TDMA/GSM capacity constraints. This wont happen overnight, but it means that the GSM market, at best, will be flat. This when CDMA growth is exploding.

To: Clarksterh who wrote (15359)	9/22/1998 10:49:00 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Clark: Actually, there is a bigger difference in Analog Vs. Digital than CDMA Vs TDMA. Both CDMA and TMDA/GSM are digital implementations. It has been proven that CDMA offers as much as 7x the capacity as similiar analog networks. Furthermore, CDMA and TDMA/GSM are a far more secure form of communication. Next, the CDMA/TDMA/GSM phones batteries can last longer due to the fact that these digital phones don't need as much power to transmit. Therefore, there is a bigger difference in Analog to Digital networks, than a CDMA Vs. TDMA implementation. However, there are many differences between the two (CDMA/TDMA). I will not go into them here, though. Lucent did have a tutorial about wireless communications for the layman/person. dave