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Iraq to use CDMA

A bill has been introduced in US Congress that would require postwar Iraq to use CDMA mobile phones, based on US patents and technology, rather than GSM phones whose licensing fees flow to places like France and Germany. Oh, and CDMA networks have built-in FBI-compliant surveillance technologies, which will make keeping order a lot easier for the colonial administration. The fact that neighbouring countries all use GSM is, of course, irrelevant; that's the old Middle East. (via Techdirt)

There are 4 comments on "Iraq to use CDMA":

Posted by: Graham
http://grudnuk.com
Fri Mar 28 06:49:11 2003

Steven den Beste will be happy...

Posted by: acb
http://dev.null.org
Fri Mar 28 07:06:55 2003

Who?

Posted by: Graham
http://grudnuk.com
Fri Mar 28 13:57:28 2003

One of _those_ webloggers. Apparently a 'leckie engineer in his day job, thinks CDMA is superior to GSM...

Posted by: acb
http://dev.null.org
Fri Mar 28 15:44:30 2003

Apparently CDMA is better for long distances (hence Telstra using it in the outback). Though it lacks interoperability with other regional networks (i.e., everywhere in the Middle East, for one). Though who knows; perhaps the pervasive adoption of CDMA across the Middle East will be part of Perle/Rumsfeld's "domino effect"?

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