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To: Tahoetech who wrote (20690)	12/31/2000 3:40:14 PM
From: rf_hombre	Read Replies (2) of 29987

Tahoetech:he was surprised to learn we still have analog in our area, claiming Germany is far more advanced than the US (I think in our conversation he might have had a propensity for ethnocentricity) but since I don't know anything about the state of wireless in Germany I accepted his statement... Based on my experience in wireless in both the US and Germany, I think it would be fair to say that mobile phones are more prevalent in Germany and in Western Europe. In other words, the penetration rates in those countries are higher than 55% while in the US it's more like 40%. But what I find more of a matter of concern is that Europeans (including the East) seem far more eager to use their phones and based on my experience more wireless savvy. Absence of airtime charges for receiving party may account for the difference in behavior and for a far more consumer receptive environment. In the interest of the consumer and of our industry, we should really do away with the silly airtime charges for incoming calls. Otherwise, the last I heard is that Ericsson had a WCDMA phone but it weighed about a ton (I am exaggerating a bit) but the in North America, colleagues are reporting wireless internet trial speeds greater than 100kb/s (unloaded HDR CDMA)

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