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Old 11-21-2007, 06:06 AM   #19
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That article you quote is from 1998. A lot has happened in the 10 years since then; GSM has become the dominant global standard, and is rapidly becoming so even in the US.
You can't really make any good arguments for GSM vs. CDMA anymore. No one can. The problem with saying GSM is a "global standard" is that it's easily called old and stagnant technology because of that. Fact is, GSM is a derivative of TDMA, which we largely got rid of here in the US a few years back (thankfully.)

The waters get murkier when you realize that the new standard (UMTS) rolling out across Europe soon, though being called "GSM" because it comes from the same providers and uses a SIM card, is actually CDMA-based technology.

So to be technologically technical, CDMA is becoming the default, global standard.

That said, I use a GSM provider in the US
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