Off topic -- Mobile accessibility V Talx

[Steve Holmes]

Correction:

I believe most of the phone networks in the US are CDMA and not TDMA.  I
think this supposed Audiovox 9900 or Toshieba VM4050 is a CDMA type phone;
Sprint PCS is CDMA based.

I'm not quite sure what to think about GSM's future.  A couple people at
Verizon were telling me that "WCDMA" was due to roll out and it is based on
current CDMA technology and is expected to take over GSM networks someday.
I don't know if it is wishful thinking on the part of Verizon or if it is
for real.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean McMahon" <smcmahon at usgs.gov>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: Off topic -- Mobile accessibility V Talx


> The accessable phones are gsm compatable.  GSM is what europe and asia use
> where as most of the phone networks such as verison and sprint are tdma?
> atnt and TMobile support gsm networks and others will have to follow.  The
> result is for now less coverage with gsm then we already have with the
crapy
> coverage of other networks.  I heard that gsm across the U.S. is about 75
> percent don't know if that's of the major markets or of the whole country.
> Sean