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To: ms.smartest.person who wrote (3)	10/8/2000 12:28:11 PM
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TABLE: Keywords for the Wireless Net businessweek.com@@UH5QoWUQoDHrQUA/premium/00_42/b3703008.htm 3G A generic way to describe third-generation cell-phone services offering high-speed Internet access that will start in Japan next spring, followed by Europe in late 2001and the U.S. in 2002. (See CDMA 2000 and W-CDMA below.) GSM* Global System for Mobile Communications. Europe's digital cellular standard, which is now the most popular cellular standard in the world. CDMA Code Division Multiple Access. A basic digital wireless technology that lets multiple cell-phone users share the same frequency band. CDMA 2000 Qualcomm's third-generation standard, offering Internet access at 2 megabits per second. Sprint hopes to offer CDMA 2000 in mid-2003. C-HTML Compact HTML. A coding technique used by NTT DoCoMo and others to display Web pages on a cell-phone screen EDGE Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution. Operators of GSM and other TDMA systems will use EDGE as an intermediate step to 3G. i-mode NTT DoCoMo's Net service for cell phones. The connection is ''always on,'' so subscribers can read e-mail and browse the Web on their phones without dialing. WCDMA Wideband CDMA is the third-generation standard backed by Japan and Europe. Backwards-compatible with GSM, it was designed for highspeed Internet access and videoconferencing. TDMA Time Division Multiple Access. A basic digital wireless technology used in both GSM and in current-generation digital services from AT&T and other North and South American carriers. WAP Wireless Application Protocol. A global standard for displaying Web pages on small cell-phone screens (compare c-HTML).

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