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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (19161)	12/5/1998 1:29:00 PM
From: engineer	Respond to of 152472

Americans or europeans?

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (19161)	12/5/1998 2:54:00 PM
From: Clarksterh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Tero - While I can hardly disagree with you inre Nokia handset growth, I take issue with: What I saw when I visited USA last month was CDMA's complete inability to reach consumers with a coherent message of what it is and what sets it apart from other standards. Why would you expect a consumer to know what type of service he is using? The primary difference between CDMA and its competitors is that CDMA is more spectrum efficient and thus needs fewer basestations per user density. The consumer doesn't care what the technology is, but he does care about the cost. This may not show up initially for a variety of reasons (e.g. deep pockets competitors like AT&T who subsidize their networks, immature technology not yet fully tuned (think X???? which will double capacity).), but it will eventually. Of course there are some differences between CDMA and TDMA that do translate into features that the customer can see, but there aren't too many and they aren't really mature yet (think battery life - it would be interesting to plot talk times vs weights for GSM and CDMA over the last few years. CDMA is now mostly caught up and I would expect them to pass in the next year or two as the more complicated chips become less of a factor in power draw.). The average consumers doesn't care about the underlying phone technology any more than they care about the voltage in their homes. Clark

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (19161)	12/6/1998 7:48:00 PM
From: PoorRich	Respond to of 152472

CDMA better quality than TDMA in Colorado Tero, I bought NOKIA (very cheap during the early Oct crash) because of your postings. While Christmas shopping today (I bought my wife a Sony Vario mini-laptop although I own DELL and CPQ), I discussed cell phones with salesmen in many electronic stores. A common response was that CDMA was better than TDMA in Colorado because of fewer dropped calls and higher audio quality. NOKIA's success was because of AT&T's One-Rate plan. However, Sprint PCS with CDMA was now selling more than AT&T because of the higher reliability and sound quality. Moreover, QCOM phones had been sold out. I enjoy your fervid yet lucid support of NOKIA and have benefited financially from your advocacy. I'll buy some QCOM soon. PoorRich