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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (24157)	3/13/1999 10:45:00 AM
From: DaveMG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

] I agree the battle is over between GSM and CDMA, but I was meaning there is a lot more to happen yet in price and capacity battles. Prices are still way too high. GSM can still hold the line for years as a legacy system unless cdmaOne capacity increases and price decreases continue quickly. My point was that the cost of the minutes is important and it is not yet cheap enough to talk about obscure functions and expect customers to ignore high prices Mq...Hope I didn't sound like some moron banging on the same old drum, it's just that that "article" was actually referring to that dead horse "which is more efficient, CDMA or GSM?". Some TDMAer was providing false and fanciful post mortems as to the cause of death.. I wish that I understood the spectrum issues in more depth. Your "friends" observation that 3G is a ploy to get more spectrum dovetails nicely with what Gregg had said Dr J thought, which is that 3G is a ploy on the part of ERICY & al. to back out of GSM and move to CDMA, one way or another Alice in Wonderland, up is down black is white kind of stuff... But what about spectrum? Won't WCDMA be deployed in new spectrum so that GSM will in fact coexist with it possibly forever, high throughput data apps running on WCDMA and voice only on GSM, this in a sense is what HDR is about no? Perhaps this idea that we've been throwing around about GSMers having to dump their interface gear in order to upgrade will turn out to be wrong, too wasteful, these systems will sit side by side.Miltimode handsets could in some overall sense be cheaper than a completely converged/harmonized system which forces huge amounts of equipment to be junked.This might also explain why Q would compromise on this issue and would want a GSM license. Hoping this rumour obout the sale to ERICY of the infrastructure division is false but if it's not I presume they'd have good reasons for it.. DMG