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To: Bux who wrote (1629)	3/22/1999 10:43:00 AM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

About that "world"... Australia has three GSM operators and one CDMA operator - and that CDMA operator (Telstra) just selected GSM-1800 as their new network standard. Russia's GSM subscriber growth topped 100% last year - Moscow is getting a new GSM 900/1800 network. CDMA there is marginal at best. All Eastern European countries went GSM - and entirely new networks are being launched in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria this year to increase competition. Arab nations are continuing the GSM build-up - Norton Networks said in February that it expected as many as 30 African countries to award GSM licences this year. This one's for you, Maurice - entirely new GSM contrasts all over Eastern Europe and Africa this year. Not expansion contracts. We've been through the Asian situation. China is projected to have 300-500 million GSM subs within a couple of years. Meanwhile, 70% of the world's CDMA users eat kimchi. Tero

To: Bux who wrote (1629)	3/22/1999 10:44:00 AM
From: Mika Kukkanen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

The whole world turning cdma? Do you mean IS-95? If so, and by your statement it implies IS-95 (or you don't actually know anything about the market), where exactly is it shown that the world is turning cdma. Those rose coloured specs must be good. If you refer to WCDMA and cdma2000, they are different. As everyone knows the term "CDMA" is not licensed and is far older than that San Diego company -it is in its implementation that counts. GSM is and is likely to always be the dominant 2G technology. Mika