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Re: That's great but said by fifty nine:said by 81399672:I disagree, GSM works just as good as CDMA. Then why is GSM moving to CDMA? Who told you that?
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| said by r81984:said by fifty nine:said by 81399672:I disagree, GSM works just as good as CDMA. Then why is GSM moving to CDMA? Who told you that? I told myself that.
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| W-CDMA and CDMA are not even close to the same thing.
W-CDMA is closer to GSM than CDMA2000.
Phones that use W-CDMA will also work on GSM as a fallback to where W-CDMA is not running.
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Erie, PA | reply to r81984
said by r81984:W-CDMA and CDMA are not even close to the same thing. W-CDMA is closer to GSM than CDMA2000. Phones that use W-CDMA will also work on GSM as a fallback to where W-CDMA is not running. I'm not going to claim to be an expert on this as you appear to be insinuating you are; but I don't think you're understanding how GSM relates to WCDMA.
The particular implementation of WCDMA you're speaking of appears to be designed to work around the existing TDMA GSM system and use the existing GSM equipment from the tower to the provider; however it does in fact appear to be a CDMA type system.
In other words GSM is a TDMA system but WCDMA (the brand name, perhaps more accurately called UMTS) is a WCDMA (the wireless networking topology) system which would actually be a type of CDMA networking topology). Thus all the things you attribute to problems with CDMA are going to be present in WCDMA.
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