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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (1792)	4/17/1999 2:10:00 AM
From: Clarksterh	Respond to of 34857

Telstra has this weird network - I think they bought it from Motorola, I'm not sure. A brief story - a while ago I was doing a vendor survey of WLL systems, and one standard we looked at was B-CDMA. They had one of the most appealing technical specs (e.g. higher bandwidth than most competitive standards). But then each of the vendors started boasting about the 'special features' which their B-CDMA system handled. When asked whether these were part of the standard, and whether anyone else made handsets that would work with these features, they said no. End result, no sale (although later the whole project was killed for other reasons). It is a complete mystery to me why the companies (Interdigital, Samsung, ...) allowed this to happen, but it is even more of a mystery why a company as sophisticated as Telstra would be suckered into a similar situation. Apparently plenty of consumers are jumping into existing GSM networks instead of waiting for the CDMA roll-out as Telstra planned. You've just earned a 'tsk, tsk'. You set up a straw man to knock down. (Another idiom for you) I don't think too many knowledgable and intelligent people would claim that customers are going to wait for CDMA. In fact I doubt most users even know what CDMA is. The contention has always been only that CDMA allows for substantially cheaper rates per hour of talk time of a given quality. No more, no less. So unless Telstra announces that service is coming in 6 months for which the price will be 1/2(?) that of the existing service, I seriously doubt that it would have any effect on sign-up rates for GSM. Clark