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CDMA or GSM: Which is better?

October 14, 2008

Says A G Rao, the chief technology officer of Tata Teleservices: "The transmission network is neutral to technologies. The same infrastructure can be used for all the technologies. It will give us more efficiency in economics and skill-set building."

According to estimates, 60-70 per cent of the existing CDMA infrastructure can be used for the GSM network. Since RCom has already spun off the towers into a separate company, the cost of the new towers will not show on RCom's books.

The 18,000 towers can accommodate 18 million subscribers. Each of those can be acquired at an estimated cost of only $35-40, compared with about $100 that a new entrant will have to spend on acquiring each subscriber.

Image: People visit the exhibition stand of China Unicom at the PT/Expo Comm hosted at the China International Exhibition Center in Beijing, China. | Photograph: Feng Li/Getty Images

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