GSM Association Responds to Congressman Issa on Iraq

In response to Congressman Darrell Issa's request that the U.S. Armed Forces should adopt CDMA as the mobile standard for rebuilding post-war Iraq, Rob Conway, who heads the GSM Association, said the political pressure is "as ill-timed as it is misinformed." Conway pointed out that GSM is an open, worldwide standard (not a French or European standard) and GSM currently accounts for 72% of the world market. He also noted that GSM is already deployed in every country of the Middle East region (and has over 60 million customers), while CDMA is not deployed in single nation.
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