You may have read that Siemens believes North American telecoms operators could shift to the GSM mobile standard from the rival CDMA system.
It would be nice if they said why.
While we agree with the points that Christoph Catselitz made, they're totally irrelevant with regard to that prediction.
We think Christoph (head of Siemens AG's mobile networks business) is just trash-talking, because Siemens mobile has been newly acquired by Benq (Brave Benq!), and Benq's collection of CDMA phones is not particularly great. I can't even find a listing of Siemens's CDMA-only phones.
And of course, in 2001, in articles titled "Siemens storms U.S. mobile market," Florian Seiche (vice president and general manager, Siemens mobile phones, Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group) said: "The U.S. market is moving toward GSM as the technology for wireless."
Sound familiar? Note that currently 50% of the US market is CDMA.
