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To: Peter J Hudson who wrote (2165)	9/15/1999 10:01:00 AM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) of 34857

Peter, << ... global roaming? ... How is the GSM roaming in USA, Canada, Korea and Japan and what is the outlook for the future? >> << The countries I mentioned either have no GSM or no hope of ever having adequate GSM coverage >> Outlook improving significantly. * USA & Canada - The GSM operators in their struggle for North American survival have banded together with roaming agreements and extended them internationally. VoiceStream and Omnipoint very successfully filled in major gaps in national coverage in the C block reauction this spring and have commenced build out Chicago, Dallas, St. Louis, and smaller markets. New Orleans will be the only major city in the US without GSM coverage 18 months from now. Microcell's Fido network is reasonably well built out in major cities of Canada. * Japan - NTT DoCoMo is of course building out it's 3rd generation UMTS (evolved GSM) network. USIM functionality and backwards compatibility with GSM should be incorporated into terminals for this network allowing subscribers to authenticate to GSM networks worldwide. See: nokia.com * Korea - SIM specifications were established for Korea for a dual mode CDMA/GSM terminal in 1995. To date no manufacturer has produced a terminal incorporating this specification or functionality, so no GSM roaming here. * Latin America - GSM weak, TDMA strong. Enter the trimode terminal and the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium and North American GSM Alliance TDMA-GSM Interoperability Agreement starts to take on some significance (also strengthens roaming capabilities in Canada and even allowing a call in New Orleans). Seems to me the outlook for global roaming looks petty bright from the GSM-TDMA perspective. Globalstar/GSM terminals with SIM being manufactured in Europe (ERICY's subsidiary I think) represent another way to achieve global roaming. - Eric -

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