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To: w molloy who wrote (52)	7/28/2000 10:45:01 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 172

WM, What you describe seems like a lot of hard work to make GSM go well to fill a gap of only a few years. What about just having two phones? W-CDMA for round town [or MC-CDMA if DS-CDMA never actually gets going] and grab the GSM phone for a trip from London to Cornimont [where the rollout of 3G will take a lot longer]. There are several service providers in each area. People could just have a couple of phones [as our youngest daughter does with her own money to use the cheapest plans at different times]. Phones are very cheap now. Don't you think that it might be cheaper, more efficient, more convenient etc just to have a few devices and use the one needed at the time? To buy a multimode, multiband system for the odd trips around the world only to replace them on an annual basis without actually using the other modes and bands seems expensive. The battery would go flat faster. It would run slower. It would be bigger and hotter. Phones are so small and light now that to pack a couple or three phones wouldn't be all that tough to do. I admit the Globalstar phone is still quite expensive and cumbersome, with backup batteries and recharger. Vodafone will be building 3G out in the UK very quickly given the $35bn spent on spectrum. Leave GSM for the 2G world which will gradually die off. If people go to such an area where only GSM's available, then they could take a cheap GSM phone for a few days. I'm not convinced that GSM/3G is a necessary ASIC package to offer. Even if Spinco does get GSM working quite well, it won't be as good as what Nokia is offering in standalone GSM devices by then so maybe the multimodes won't sell anyway. Mqurice

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