CDMA network no longer ringing

<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>> > CDMA could do this when it was installed. It was ahead of it's time
>>
>> Was SMS available at launch? I have a feeling it wasnt, it was a few
>> months
>> off
>
> The CDMA system was capable of SMS at launch,

Clearly not, as you would have been able to SMS at the time

>but Telstra didn't
> install "all" of CDMA for the launch.

Obviously they installed the requirements of a CDMA service, which is to be
able to make and receive calls whilst in a coverage area

> SMS capabilty was added to the Telstra CDMA network after launch.
>
> Come to think of it, SMS wasn't available at launch of GSM either!!!

Exactly

---

› See More: CDMA network no longer ringing

On Wed, 14 May 2008 14:46:30 in aus.comms.mobile [email protected] may have written:
> Come to think of it, SMS wasn't available at launch of GSM either!!!

That's right, it wasn't. Yet another point of similarity between the two
networks. You've forgotten which side of this thing you were
passionately arguing, haven't you...

*shakes head*

PD

--
Paul Day

[email protected] wrote:
>>> CDMA could do this when it was installed. It was ahead of it's time
>> Was SMS available at launch? I have a feeling it wasnt, it was a few months
>> off
>
> The CDMA system was capable of SMS at launch, but Telstra didn't
> install "all" of CDMA for the launch.
>
> SMS capabilty was added to the Telstra CDMA network after launch.
>
> Come to think of it, SMS wasn't available at launch of GSM either!!!

Different situation. By the time CDMA got here, customers were very well
accustomed to having SMS as they had on GSM, and expected the same on CDMA.