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To: Boplicity who wrote (108199)	3/8/1999 12:36:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Respond to of 176387

<--OT--> On CDMA,TDMA & GSM Here is bit more on wireless technology. =============== F&S Research Report Praises CDMA 08 Mar 1999, 9:55 AM CST By Grant Buckler, Newsbytes. MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., Code division multiple access (CDMA) technology is the hottest of the three major standards for cellular telephone systems, according to a recent report from Frost & Sullivan Inc. The research firm said CDMA is technically robust and cost-effective. Frost & Sullivan estimated revenues for CDMA technology at $8.5 billion worldwide in 1998. F&S said CDMA can give the carriers who use it a competitive edge over those using time division multiple access (TDMA) and global system for mobile communications (GSM), the other two major cellular standards. The reason, Frost & Sullivan said, is CDMA's higher potential capacity, which can lead to lower infrastructure deployment and maintenance costs for carriers. A study released earlier this year by another research firm, Strategy Analytics, predicted that GSM will continue to dominate worldwide, going from 41 percent to 53 percent of the market between 1998 and 2003. However, Strategy Analytics forecast faster growth for CDMA -- 47 percent compound annual growth from 1998 to 2003, taking it from 7 percent to 20 percent of subscribers globally. Strategy Analytics forecast TDMA, now holding 5 percent of the market, will reach 14 percent by 2003. Growth in all three mainstream standards will come at the expense of less-used technologies, the January study said. F&S also described CDMA as the basis for third-generation cellular networks. Of three standards seen as likely contenders for the next generation of wireless systems, which will include high-speed data capabilities, two are CDMA-based, and there has been progress recently toward bringing these together as different modes of a unified standard, Newsbytes notes. While CDMA faced early skepticism, its early success in key markets -- including the US, Canada, and Korea -- has helped allay the concerns, Frost & Sullivan reported. CDMA is no longer seen, as it once was, as a new and unproven standard. If there is a threat to CDMA, it lies in regulatory agencies that might make decisions shutting the technology out of some markets, F&S said.