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To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (41980)	9/20/1999 11:29:00 PM
From: idler	Read Replies (1) of 152472

<Chunghwa plans to adopt CDMA technology supporting the IS-95B standard, which offers transmission speeds up to 64Kbps. The global system for mobile communications (GSM), currently the mainstream digital-cellular technology, offers a maximum speed of 9.6Kbps. Some GSM-system suppliers have introduced general-packed radio service (GPRS) to hike the speed to 100Kbps. However, no handsets support the upgraded system.> According to Q analyst conference, the path to get data from GSM / TDMA is "more convoluted"; GPRS (GSM) has 8 slots and makes it hard to hand off because you need an empty channel. [?] My impression was Q was pretty confident GPRS was inherently inferior as a data communications technology and wouldn't ultimately be able to handle large volumes demanded. However, I'm still trying to understand this, but this may be an important point. If this description needs correction/amplification technically, someone please clarify or amplify. -- idler.

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