asterisk users - Sep 2008 - OT: Do You Know What the Problem With CDMA is?

It's OT but I thought it was funny enough to point out seeing this is a
telephony list...... world wide data.....like the 'world series' of
baseball if you ask me :-)

 

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Dean Collins
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h-cdma-is.html 
Subject: Do You Know What the Problem With CDMA is?

 

I'm a Cingular customer but i noticed that the HTC Touch Pro is only
available from Sprint at the moment.

So when I noticed a Sprint mailer in the post box I thought I'd flick
through it.

Take a look at this picture and tell me if you cant work out what is
wrong with CDMA



 
<http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jmYevHrBr6M/SNqpnwbZW-I/AAAAAAAAAww/p2pRhDO9t
VM/s1600-h/Sprint.png> 
Yep you got it.... world coverage includes all the countries of the
world like USA, Canada and Mexico, and not something like USA and 212
other countries globally.

BTW I hear that Iraq also now uses CDMA (some senator shoe-horned it
into a funding bill for the war that they had to use CDMA to 'support
usa businesses'), of course that means that they now use a different
handset type to all of their neighbours....... though I hear Iran will
also be forced to implement CDMA once they are 'liberated' which should
be any day now :)


Cheers,
Dean

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On September 25, 2008 09:01:52 am Dean Collins wrote:
> Yep you got it.... world coverage includes all the countries of the
> world like USA, Canada and Mexico, and not something like USA and 212
> other countries globally.
>
> BTW I hear that Iraq also now uses CDMA (some senator shoe-horned it
> into a funding bill for the war that they had to use CDMA to 'support
> usa businesses'), of course that means that they now use a different
> handset type to all of their neighbours....... though I hear Iran will
> also be forced to implement CDMA once they are 'liberated' which
should
> be any day now :)
That doesn't mean that GSM towers won't be built, it just means that the
CDMA
towers will be there first.

I dunno; GSM 3G is all CDMA tech anyway.

-A.