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Date:      Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:07:29 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
Cc:        "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net>, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mobile phone coverage (was: VCD (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c))
Message-ID:  <20010122150729.S3066@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101212221400.55216-100000@shell-2.enteract.com>; from dscheidt@enteract.com on Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:35:15PM -0600
References:  <20010122135650.Q3066@wantadilla.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101212221400.55216-100000@shell-2.enteract.com>

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On Sunday, 21 January 2001 at 22:35:15 -0600, David Scheidt wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>> I've been looking at web pages, and it doesn't sound to me that 3G is
>> a new transmission technology, just something that climbs on the back
>> of one.  Is there any reason why it should be tied to CDMA and not to
>> GSM?
>
> Yes.  CDMA has much better use of bandwidth.

That's not a reason why 3G can't work on GSM.

> All users of a CDMA channel use it simultanously, not time
> multiplexed.

Well, there are bandwidth considerations anyway.  There's just less
waste.

Greg
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