<cornedbeef007-groups@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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>> > CDMA could do this when it was installed. It was ahead of it's time
>>
>> Was SMS available at launch? I have a feeling it wasnt, it was a few
>> months
>> off
>
> The CDMA system was capable of SMS at launch,

Clearly not, as you would have been able to SMS at the time

>but Telstra didn't
> install "all" of CDMA for the launch.

Obviously they installed the requirements of a CDMA service, which is to be
able to make and receive calls whilst in a coverage area

> SMS capabilty was added to the Telstra CDMA network after launch.
>
> Come to think of it, SMS wasn't available at launch of GSM either!!!

Exactly