>From: Pbdevine <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 12:13:37 EST
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>Subject: Re: Bond story and DWD
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>THE DIGITAL WIRELESS DIGEST
>December 1997
>
>...WSJ: TDMA Sounds like "Marbles in your Mouth."
>
>The Wall Street Journal and PCS Week are leading the reports of the
>demise of AT&T Wireless' (TDMA) digital phone service.  "AT&T
>experienced quality problems" says the WSJ. And quoting an  AT&T
>customer, "It sounds like you've got marbles in your mouth." PCS
>reports analysts are blaming TDMA: "Robert Rosenberg, president of New
>Jersey- based Insight Research, blamed AT&T's troubles on the TDMA
>standard, which many customers have described as having poorer voice
>quality than other standards.  Rosenberg said AT&T was "caught holding
>the bag with TDMA.  Nortel admitted that two years ago."
>
>
>...EVEN READERS DIGEST IS GETTING INTO THE ACT...
>
> Lowell Ponte, science editor for Readers Digest, reports on his
> syndicated radio show that CDMA is "superior to TDMA."
>
>
>...OUR MAN IN MONTREAL...
>
> The American Embassy  in Canada is reporting that the largest
> cellular companies in Canada, Bell  Mobility and Clearnet, are using
> CDMA. The embassy predicts 20 percent to 30 percent growth in the
> wireless digital market in Canada for the forseeable future.
>
>
>...DITTO IN MEXICO...
>
> Where Iusacell, Mexico's largest independent phone company, is
> choosing CDMA for its cellular standard., because, said a piece in
> the Los Angeles Daily News, it didn't want to get stuck with
> "second-rate, Third World Technology."
>
>For more related Articles and Postings, please go to the forum at
>
> <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/Pbdevine/diginews.html">Digital Wireless
>Phone Digest</A>
>
>and
>
> <A HREF="http://www.cdg.org">CDMA Development Group</A>
>
>
>... What TDMA Really Means...
>
>If you are one of the few people who has yet to see the infamous cartoon,
>go to the above address. Better yet, go straight to the artist's website at
>
> <A HREF="http://www.blarge.net/~margot/tdma.gif">What TDMA Really Means</A>
>
>
>...DID SISKEL AND EBERT REALLY SAY THIS?
>
>In the new James Bond flick, Bond uses a super-duper new cellular
>phone -- that has just been recalled by the factory because of defects
>-- it shuts off in the middle of conversations.
>
>It's made by a Swedish company called Ericsson -- which, I read, is
>one of five major sponsors of the Bond flick...
>
>You know, this never happened when Bond used only the English-made
>products issued by Q.
>
>...GSM FRAUDULENT?
>
>PCS Week reports that seven GSM wireless salespeople in South Carolina
>and a few users are suing BellSouth Corp for misleading them "into thinking
>its PCS network had superior quality to cellular service as well as a
>comparable footprint." But. said their lawyer, "while working for the
>global system for mobile communications (GSM) operator, they weren't even
>making their draw of $16,000 per year. They couldn't make money
>because the network was not there."
>
>"The salespeople, charge in the suit--filed Nov. 12 in Forsyth County,
>N.C., Superior Court--that the BellSouth subsidiary fraudulently
>misrepresented its capacity to deliver clear, reliable phone service
>throughout its publicized coverage area."
>
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