In theory, the next generation of GSM will use CDMA, but it won't be compatible with what we call "CDMA" stateside, which is the Verizon network.

My semi-vague memory is that this is so North America wouldn't come into the new standard with a large deployed base, that we'd be screwed like everyone else. (e.g. no technical reasons for it)

I like to pretend I live in a technocracy, and so I ridicule and berate those people.

But then, my friends would say, "He's like that to everyone".