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Date:      Tue, 23 Jan 2001 08:47:57 -0600 (CST)
From:      David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
To:        Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GSM vs. CDMA
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101230841550.70221-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>
In-Reply-To: <94k17v$1e4m$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>

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On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Christian Weisgerber wrote:

:Duncan Barclay <dmlb@dmlb.org> wrote:
:
:> >       Keep in mind that we're talking about one theoretical phone that 
:> > can supposedly get coverage anywhere in the world.  The analog 
:> > portion would be intended for use primarily in the US, in those 
:> > places where you can't get GSM, TDMA, or CDMA coverage.
:> 
:> Africa is buying up a lot of Europe's old Analog equipment.
:
:Analog cell-phone equipment?  I don't think so.
:Pre-GSM, Europe suffered a patchwork of incompatible analog networks.
:That equipment has the value of scrap-metal by now.
:

I know that a bunch of Ex-US AMPS equipment has ended up in various bits of
china, and Africa.  It's cheap, eh?

David




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