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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (16704)	10/19/1998 6:41:00 AM
From: Rajala	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Mqurice, it is always a pleasure to answer your posts. "Australia had chosen GSM. Now cdmaOne is going to take over. Many places are swapping systems to cdmaOne. So it obviously isn't all that difficult." CDMA1 is not going to take over, not even in Australia. What happened is that the govt. banned all analog because they don't want to look as backward as the Americans and the Russians. So out goes old AMPS, lock stock and barrel. Instead, the operator is going to build CDMA1 network to serve the remote rural areas. So, in essence, Australia is remaining GSM with a rural CDMA1. Is swapping a system to another difficult? No, if you don't think it difficult that everything is thrown out and a new network is built from scratch. "WLL is cheaper than mobile. That is why people are buying it. Argue all you like what it SHOULD be." Yes, I agree it SHOULD be substantially cheaper. That's probably why all those 250 subscribers in Russia signed on. - rajala