Forum Archive Index - July 2000

["Ron Drever" <ron.drever@telecom.co.nz>]

Hi Jeremy,

 

Sort of... CDMA comes in various forms.

 

What Telecom is currently rolling out is CDMA-1 or narrow band CDMA. Its a 2G (2nd generation) product. The 3G product is CDMA-2000 or wide band CDMA.

 

For those with a deeper interest here's a link... http://www.cdg.org/tech/tech.html

 

It's interesting to note that China Unicom recently canned it's CDMA-1 rollout stating that the wideband technology (3G) had become available far sooner than first thought and the 2G network would be obsolete before they could even get it switched on.

 

Ron. 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy <jeremy@electrosilk.net>
To: sharechat@sharechat.co.nz <sharechat@sharechat.co.nz>
Date: Wednesday, 26 July 2000 13:03
Subject: Re: [sharechat] Telecom & XTRA

From: "Rhys Lewis" <rhys.lewis@zivo.co.nz>

> So Telecom is looking at rolling out a 3rd network (after AMPS and DAMPS)
> called CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access).  This system will be able to
> offer all the 3G stuff.

We have CDMA in Australia, it is a sort of second rate service at the
moment, used mostly by farmers because it has greater range.  Handsets are
bigger and clunkier and it has no speed advantage or sex appeal.  Are we
talking about the same systems ?

Jeremy