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To: Craig Schilling who started this subject	4/20/2001 8:01:36 PM
From: S100	of 152472

UK: Another mobile let down? 20/04/2001 British Telecom has set the launch date for the first mass-market phones using GPRS for May 18th 2001; almost a year after BT launched its first GPRS services for businesses. The continuous stalling of the consumer launch has fuelled widespread fears that the GPRS network is plagued with technical problems, and the WAP over GPRS services available on the demonstration models did little to allay those rumours. Of the six demonstration handsets available, only two worked at any one time, and the network was often unavailable. This will hardly prompt consumers to pay out the GBP199 (E321)necessary to purchase the handsets when they reach stores in one month’s time. When the network was functioning, it did speed up and improve the WAP experience, but GPRS cannot solve the familiar WAP problems of poor graphics, small screens, and a clunky user interface. Moreover, GPRS problems are not only technical but also suffer from a lack of common sense. BT had to replace the first batch of Motorola T7389i handsets, as they were compliant with the wrong version of the GPRS standard - a fault that made them useless in many areas, including central London. On the technical side, BT's Motorola handsets will only be capable of 28.8kbps downstream and 14.4 kbps upstream (current WAP handsets offer up to 14.4kbps in both directions) despite promises in the press of up to 100Kbps. europemedia.net

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