From: Greg Rose <ggr@Qualcomm.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 12:11:30 -0800 (PST)
To: wb8foz@nrk.com
Subject: Re: PCS Encryption?
Message-ID: <199702032011.MAA01039@toad.com>
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David Lesher writes:
>Greg Rose sez:
>> 
>> The three different digital standards in North
>> America are TDMA, CDMA, and GSM (in NY and DC
>> only AFAIK).  Newer analog phones use at least
>> some of this, but I don't know much about them.
>
>? I always thought GSM was a specific application
>of TDMA...

Technologically, GSM *is* a kind of time division
multiple access, but the term "TDMA" as I used it
is meant to apply to North American IS-128(?)
compliant things. They are definitely not
interoperable.

Greg.

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