yes, cdma is better protocol, and makes sense in ohms and hertz..
but you can't get around the phones sucking.

only recently have real cellphone manufacturers started producing cdma phones, and most 027s on the market are still from companies that had never made a mobile phone before CDMA arrived.

there are so many shocking cdma phones availble, with software bugs, and near unusuable interfaces. phones that die suddently and spontanesly fry their flash rom. some phones that turn off when you open the flip..

the reason i see cdma as such a bad idea is it isn't really a real standard, it's just a great protocol that's patented and pushed by one company. GSM on the other hand is the world's cellphone platform. and in telecommunation we need open and widely accepted standards otherwise things just don't work. Having one company controlling what you can and cannot do on CDMA is what (to me) is holding back CDMA

right now, how many things can i do on CDMA that i can't do on GSM?
i can ionstantly think of a dozen things i can do on GSM that CDMA just can't do, because nobody is making the technology work on CDMA.