More on AT&T Wireless's Bungled System Upgrade

Posted by michael on Saturday April 17, 2004 @11:12AM from the sweet-creamy-justice dept.

An anonymous reader writes "CIO.com has posted a very in-depth article on the recent failings of AT&T Wireless that resulted in the state of the company today. What's fascinating about this article is the sheer amount of accurate information gleaned from former and current employees on the company's bungled attempts to follow FCC mandates on local number portability last November, the inside story on outsourcing efforts, and terrible executive management decisions that ultimately led to its demise. Ironically, the scathing and sometimes highly sarcastic commentary at the end of the article from former employees makes this read even better."

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Re:Ok, look here by matth · 2004-04-17 13:06 · Score: 0, Redundant

Uhh that hear hear was in responce to the AC who posted:

This statement is 100% wrong.

First, the fact that the Europeans were able to deploy GSM (which is a TDMA technology) instead of AMPS (which is an FDMA technology) shows that there is room for more than one mobile phone technology in the world.

Second, every mobile phone network, including GSM networks, will be upgrading to CDMA over the next several years. So, when there is one mobile phone technology, it will be CDMA.

Third, the US government is not behind CDMA. In fact, unlike almost all other countries in the world, the US government does not mandate that a specific mobile phone technology be deployed. That is why the US has operators using AMPS, TDMA (including IDEN and GSM) and CDMA technologies.