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To: SKIP PAUL who wrote (17479)	10/31/1998 2:16:00 PM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

Consider this: Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and China, the most economically viable areas of Asia are also GSM strongholds. If CDMA operator would suddenly materialize in Shanghai they would have to sell their phones to customers who know that the phones would not work in other Chinese-speaking areas of Asia. Why would anyone buy a phone like that? Why would anyone build a huge CDMA network in China knowing that it would take years before they could start attracting business customers, the most lucrative and roaming-dependent consumer segment. India faces a similar situation: roaming in other Asian countries is only possible with GSM unless you are only going to Korea and Japan. CDMA WLL success may be impressive... but it's not stopping GSM from becoming the dominant mobile phone standard in India. Business customers and people who travel a lot are choosing GSM. And that's where the operator revenue growth comes from. Tero

To: SKIP PAUL who wrote (17479)	11/6/1998 3:35:00 PM
From: Rajala	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

To all: I'm back. Had to go see some people who speak funny. Even funnier than myself. Skimming thorough the mass of postings I missed a lot so be patient with me (you never were anyway). So there's at least one posting so far about my favorite topic, the mobile-for-the-morons concept, the WLL. Unfortunately it was from Skip Paul: >In fact CDMA based WLL subscribers will outnumber GSM >subscribers next year and chances are that competitive >mobile CDMA operators are going to spring up in most >cities early next year. > >BOTTOM LINE IS THAT GSM IS SIMPLY NOT ECONOMICAL >COMPARED TO CDMA AND WILL BE GRADUALLY REPLACED. >That is a hard fact for you to accept but that is >simply how markets work. Yeah. WLL outnum bering GSM in India. Sure. And this GSM vs. CDMA thing, Paul, you forget to mention that the replacing CDMA is WCDMA. And as anybody knows, WCDMA = GSM version of the theme. Also it is relatively smart to change GSM network to CDMA1 (Engineer, are you there, I mean CDMAOne), at least compared to changing GSM to WLL network. But not much smarter. - rajala