Has anyone noticed...?
I was thinking today...
Has anyone noticed that on Phonescoop in particular, the advertisement of GSM devices/services seems to be more prevalent than that of CDMA? I myself notice particularly when it seems every site I visit is devoid completely of Sanyo branded products. What's up with that? After the buy-out is totally complete, there will basically be 4 top cell carriers: Sprint, Verizon, Cingular and T-Mobile... that's two CDMA and two GSM. So why is it that GSM is everywhere on this website? Where I live, almost everyone has Sprint or Verizon... and people who don't have Cincinnati Bell (mostly TDMA or a mixture too, not their GSM). Maybe someone can enlighten me (WITHOUT BEING MEAN). 🙂 Thanks in advance.
Has anyone noticed that on Phonescoop in particular, the advertisement of GSM devices/services seems to be more prevalent than that of CDMA? I myself notice particularly when it seems every site I visit is devoid completely of Sanyo branded products. What's up with that? After the buy-out is totally complete, there will basically be 4 top cell carriers: Sprint, Verizon, Cingular and T-Mobile... that's two CDMA and two GSM. So why is it that GSM is everywhere on this website? Where I live, almost everyone has Sprint or Verizon... and people who don't have Cincinnati Bell (mostly TDMA or a mixture too, not their GSM). Maybe someone can enlighten me (WITHOUT BEING MEAN). 🙂 Thanks in advance.
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Ash,
It's a marketing thing. GSM is the minority technology in the USA and so they have a lot of catching up to do. Also it is easier to make GSM phones cross the atlantic than it is for CDMA where the governments have banned CDMA. This means that Motorola, Nokia and others can make 1 handset for both North America and Europe. This brings with it enormous marketing clout on their part.
ATTWS and Cingular rolled the dice on technology and chose the GSM/WCDMA route with our Protectionist European friends. Maybe they rolled snake eyes and maybe they got a 7 or 11. Time will tell.
It is also an attempt for the European carriers to market in the USA. T-Mobile comes to mind with Vodaphone currently checking out its American options.
I have t...
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It's a marketing thing. GSM is the minority technology in the USA and so they have a lot of catching up to do. Also it is easier to make GSM phones cross the atlantic than it is for CDMA where the governments have banned CDMA. This means that Motorola, Nokia and others can make 1 handset for both North America and Europe. This brings with it enormous marketing clout on their part.
ATTWS and Cingular rolled the dice on technology and chose the GSM/WCDMA route with our Protectionist European friends. Maybe they rolled snake eyes and maybe they got a 7 or 11. Time will tell.
It is also an attempt for the European carriers to market in the USA. T-Mobile comes to mind with Vodaphone currently checking out its American options.
I have t...
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Verizon Wireless is actually my biggest advertiser and the moment, and Motorola is running a V710 campaign right now. Exactly what kind of GSM advertising are you referring to? 😕
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