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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (19946)12/17/1998 7:32:00 PM
From: DaveMG  Respond to of 152472
 
Mq..

"A single standard is better, but it will mean competitive disadvantage for GSM legacy systems. Bad luck for them. They can't load the rest of the world with a handicap because they backed the wrong horse"

They're trying pretty hard to, aren't they?

They are really faced with a simple and stark choice. "Compromise" or stick with TDMA.

Is it utterly impossible that they'd all forgoe CDMA entirely. Remember Apple/MSFT, Beta/VHS?

Hurrah Q!

Dave