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CDMA or GSM: Which is better?

October 14, 2008

CDMA wireless leader RCom will soon have 2 networks, as will Tata Tele. There is a method in duplication and little time to celebrate GSM's triumph.

At Reliance Communications' annual general meeting in Mumbai on September 30, an elderly woman shareholder pointed out that chairman Anil Ambani was wearing the same suit that he wore at the Reliance Power AGM a few days earlier. A middle-aged man praised Dhirubhai Ambani and said his spirit lived on in son Anil and "another person I will not name because you will not like it."

Another one, a little more intrepid, urged the chairman to stop fighting with brother Mukesh and, instead, give him a jaadu ki jhappi (a hug). Ambani, displaying the forbearance of one not new to these things, remained reasonable. To the one who did not want to name Mukesh, he said: "I like everyone."

There was just one question that Ambani appeared reluctant to take head on. A wrinkled little man, referring to RCom's new mobile phone service based on the GSM technology, said he already owned its CDMA phone. If he also bought the GSM phone and had one in each pocket, which of the two will be better? "We will provide both the services. It is up to the consumers to choose," said Ambani.

Text: Suveen K Sinha, Business Standard

Image: Anil Ambani, Chairman of India's Reliance Dhirubhai Anil Ambani Group (ADAG), addresses a press conference in Mumbai. | Photograph: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images

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