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To: SKIP PAUL who wrote (17482)	10/31/1998 2:51:00 PM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

If Sprint had had any idea what the handset market would be like in the winter of -98-99 back when they decided on the standard they would have run screaming from IS-95. But they listened to the siren song of Qualcomm PR department (which is world class, I admit) and decided that IS-95 is the future of telecommunication. Do you think Qualcomm told Sprint back in 1995 that in 1998 CDMA phones would all have one day of standby time and weigh ounces more than the TDMA/GSM competitors? Or do you think they told them sweet lies about rapid advances in CDMA technology? I know what I would bet on. Remember how we discussed the efficiency of different mobile phones back in 1996 in this thread and "experts" here announced that CDMA handsets are inherently superior? That the standby times of CDMA phones would be at least twice as good as GSM phones? I'm not vindictive by nature, so I'm not going to name these people... but you know who you are. You are even now talking about the technological superiority of CDMA handsets, as if the last two years had not happened. ATT's outdated TDMA is growing at 74% rate. Bellsouth's GSM network has the best consumer satisfaction rating in USA. The new GSM 900/1900 phones will give people roaming in USA, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. Global roaming with a handset costing less than 300 dollars. We'll see how outdated that is when Globalstar starts selling satellite CDMA handsets and faces competition from GSM/TDMA phones working in a hundred countries and costing/weighing a fraction of G* phones. Tero