Re: [amsat-bb] P3D information

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:24:48AM +1000, Tony Langdon wrote:
> phones go.  The GSM system had obvious limitations, due to its TDMA design
> and the distances we Aussies want to span with mobile comms.  Limitations
> that don't apply to analog systems.  More recently, CDMA was implemented as
> the successor tom analog, and touted as being equal.  Guess what?  it didn't
> prove to be the case, and people are lamenting the passing of analog.

Well, I don't think it's really been given a fair go. It's not very long
ago that Telstra announced CDMA as the replacement for the analogue
system; I don't see how they've had time to replace the entire network 
since then. Nor much incentive for them to do so, due to lack of
competition.


Hamish
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