Following US Federal Communications Commission approval for the San Diego company’s new dual standard digital and analogue cellular phone, analysts are betting that Qualcomm Inc’s Code Division Multiple Access standard will win the battle with Time Division Multiple Access, Reuter reports from New York, despite the fact that the latter, which provides less capacity, is being used by McCaw Cellular Communications Inc and Southwestern Bell Corp; Bell Atlantic Corp, Pacific Telesis Group Inc and US West Inc have all committed to using building Code Division Multiple Access networks; the European Groupe Speciale Mobile system uses a version of Time Division Multiple Access that is incompatible with the American one.
