US Congressman Lobbies for CDMA in Post-war Iraq

U.S. Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) issued a public letter to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and U.S.AID Administrator, Ambassador Wendy Chamberlain, urging the U.S. Armed Forces not to deploy a mobile phone network in post-war Iraq based on GSM. The mobile communications network presumably would be operated by the U.S. Reconstruction and Civil Affairs Office for some time after the end of hostilities and then privatized. Congressman Issa is proposing CDMA technology for political and technical reasons. Issa represents California’s 49th congressional district, which includes parts of San Diego county, home of Qualcomm.
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