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There's a lot of CDMA in North America. My service from Verizon is CDMA. 
AT&T is primarily TDMA but beginning, tentatively, to move to GSM. 
Otherwise, there's very little GSM in North America.
 On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, 
simon wrote:

> Hi you might want to research the cellular network known as CDMA , 
> we have it here in new zealand as  a competitor to gsm, it has a current
> speed here of 14.4kbps, but is very soon to go up to 144kbps, and again in
> the next year telecom nz are saying it will increase to something around
> 256k, before the intro of 3g phones within the next 24 months.
> the phones connect with a cable to the rs232 (serial com) port of the pc or
> laptop. and I have a feelling that you can also get usb connections also.
> 
> the cdma is i beleave available in the usa parts of asia and europe, but is
> not yet well known. it is only 5 months old here in new zealand, but I
> would look into it as it seems to work fine for data linkups.
> 
> simon 10:19 AM 12/17/01 +0100, you wrote:
> >
> >Hi!
> >
> >Sorry -- as far as I know, that does not exist anymore. The
> >only solution close to that bandwidth was Ricochet (wireless
> >networking) but that company is dead. Or close to death and
> >Chapter 11, anyway.
> >
> >GSM networks only allow 9.6 Kbps uplink and downlink -- which
> >is barely usable. Other radio networks (non-GSM) should not be
> >much better, and do not offer the communication quality of 
> >GSM.
> >
> >To get close to that kind of speed, the only solution I can
> >think of is satellite phone/modems (such as Intelsat), which
> >gives you up to 36.6 Kbps anywhere in the world, but the price
> >is prohibitive... To say the least.
> >
> >Your best bet? Wait for the 3G phones (next-generation GSM).
> >These promises HUGE speed increases -- up to 128.8 Kbps, if I
> >remember well -- but they won't be in use for another 3 years.
> >And they will be deployed first in Europe, not in the USA.
> >
> >Sorry!  =(
> >
> >
> >On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 21:50:02 -0600
> >Brent Harding <bharding@doorpi.net> wrote:
> >
> >>Is there any good way to get cellular access to the Internet in the
> >> states at at least 28.8 k using my computer to get online? I don't care
> >> what OS I must use as long as it's not required to upgrade to millenium or
> >> xp, staying with 98 and linux. If it's a pcmcia card, is there a pci to
> >> pcmcia adapter that I can put the card in a desktop system? Thanks.
> >> 
> >
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