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To: Dennis Roth who wrote (20948)	3/31/2002 10:22:53 AM
From: samim anbarcioglu	Read Replies (1) of 197124

DR, what a super post. I read recently a Euro minister of something saying something like: "we can't hang the future of our telecommunication system on GPS, which can be shut down or unusably degraded in the event of a war or similar hostility". But like you, I do not think that they can launch a "for pay" location finding system when there is free GPS and GLONASS. Come 2008, they will realize that the system costs more like $12 billion instead of 3.4, and ground control and things like orbit maintenance costs 2 billion/year. Until then, non-synchronous WCDMA handoff will still not work (please correct me if the WCDMA camp has figured out how to do handoff without synchronization via GPS timing) and WCDMA will be confined to single base stations (e.g. Isle of Man, and some metropolitan areas). Of course, then, if you can not do handoff, it is not mobile telephony, it is just a cordless system a la the CT2. Happy Easter. Sam A.

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