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To: Kent Rattey who wrote (8648)	1/4/2001 10:02:16 AM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (3) of 34857

It's time to adjust attitudes a little, Ken. A constant undercurrent on this thread throughout the year 2000 was this perceived "GPRS vs. 1XRTT" rivalry. Well - the year 2000 has passed and we now have a pretty good idea how that "competition" ended. In the end, 1XRTT was whipped like a weird pig, as the Finnish folk saying goes. It never got anywhere close to being an serious global rival to GPRS - that was never more than a figment of certain feverish imaginations. You know who I mean. During just the last six months, we've seen * A sweeping GPRS order for all major population centers by China Mobile * new national GPRS networks for Mexico and Argentina * new national GPRS networks for USA and Canada * a colossal GSM/GPRS plan for all Brazilian provinces The clue phone is ringing, Kent - pick it up! Implementation troubles of GPRS have had no impact whatsoever on its growing global hegemony. We can hang out here picking apart early GPRS trials till the cows come home - that won't help 1XRTT. Whatever international mobile operators may think about GPRS... they have even less faith in 1XRTT. Look at the recent backtracking in Taiwan and Australia. So let's face the music - people who dismissed GPRS have been completely discredited by the recent order flow. May I ask where are those Sprint and Verizon 1XRTT models that were supposed to stun the global telecommunications community right about now? It is January 2001. I recall that Verizon wasn't suppose to order any "old" CDMA models for this year. Where are the 1XRTT phones? Before digging any deeper into the French mobile data situation; where's the beef in USA? Or is this an unreasonable question? Should we follow the example of most SI threads and act like the 1XRTT problems are a complete taboo - only GPRS criticism is accepted by the tribal code of conduct? Tero

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