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To: Jeff Vayda who wrote (21770)	1/21/1999 11:41:00 AM
From: Clarksterh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Jeff - GSM operators would need to pay for 3G upgrades regardless. That's true, but W-CDMA is not available in any form for at least another 2 years. So, if you are an operator who could go either GSM with an expensive upgrade to 3g in 2 or 3 years, or CDMAOne with a much cheaper upgrade to 3g in a year or so, which would you choose? Thus, since Ericsson does not provide CDMAOne equipment, they will lose many technology neutral customers to CDMAOne vendors. If W-CDMA is not backwards compatible with CDMAOne then there is no particular advantage for going with CDMAOne now instead of GSM. the WCDMA or CDMA path had no inherent technical advantage. (in the real world the performance difference between the two is not that far off) Not true, as per technical specs which Walt pointed out and as per Chinese independent evaluation. CDMA-2000 has perhaps a 50% better spectrum efficiency. Clark Clark