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Re: PCS Encryption?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Rose)
Mon Feb 3 14:48:30 1997
To: wb8foz@nrk.com
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 03 Feb 1997 12:50:23 CDT.
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Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 06:29:25 +1100
From: Greg Rose <ggr@qualcomm.com>
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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