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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (1517)	2/23/1999 6:02:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

Tero, you say: "...CDMA manufacturers have been vaunting a chipset that will enable 18 days of stand-by time sometime in the future... GSM is delivering a finished product hitting the spot during the next quarter. The technology gap between GSM and CDMA shows no signs of vanishing, which might be important in markets such as Australia and Hong Kong, where the standards compete directly." CDMA has relentlessly caught up. In 1996 you, Bill Frezza and others were saying IS-95 was late to market, unstable under load, too expensive, wouldn't work anyway and if it did it would sink those who got involved with Q! going under in a welter of litigation. To say the technology gap shows no signs of vanishing while a converged WWeb agreement for 3G is nearly complete using Qualcomm's CDMA is weird. I suppose you would say you meant just in the handset realm. Well, even there, Qualcomm and licensee inroads have been relentless [to use the fashionable new word which I notice you managed to squeeze in to your 'column']. Check out the handsets now on sale in shops and cdmaOne is looking good. GSM has improved but CDMA has improved even more. The gap has narrowed. Don't forget voice quality matters too. Look at the handsets which are promised [I agree that they are not real until they have been in subscriber hands for a month or two] and the gap is even narrower. Ericy has the T28, Nokia some cdmaOne model, Q! the ThinPhone and pdQ, then there are the Korean and Japanese models which are surging into action. Meanwhile, reading your 'column' innocent bystanders could think that GSM is winning and gaining ground on CDMA. You necroequine flagellist! When are you going to let GSM rest in peace? Maurice PS: It's Tripoli [not Triopoly or Tripoly] and the USA is fixin' to Tomahawk them. It is in Africa, not Greece. What about this: "The situation derives from the difficulty in entering a high tech market after you have allowed the early adapters to build up a lead of 1-3 years." Are you saying that because Q! has got a 9 year lead over the others in the CDMA field, nobody else has a chance?