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To: The Verve who wrote (5993)	1/7/2001 4:01:38 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) of 196738

Verve, The reason to have 3G is the same reason we like to have a brain. To live and enjoy life and be a human we need to communicate and process big heaps of information in short periods of time. I am really baffled that people are baffled about why on earth anyone would want 3G. I think we will blow right through 3G, 4G and up to 10G and be frustrated at how slow and lacking functionality each step will be. Cars started at walking speed and in a few decades they were 100mph race-track scorchers. We'll get the same effect for the internet. Walking speed just won't do it for us. At the moment, we are deaf, dumb and blind when out of range of wired phones, other than a bit of talking. Deaf, dumb and blind is NOT the ideal state which people seek. We will unplug our eyes and stretch them to every corner of the world and beyond. We will hear a whisper anywhere on the planet. We will send voice, pictures and data from wherever we are to wherever we want. Time is of the essence. We don't want to wait around for 14 kbps to make like a steam-engine. We want rocket-power, turbo-boost and acceleration from 0 to 100 in less than 3 seconds. We do NOT want to spend the day stopped at red-lights. We want 100mph freeways through cyberspace, with NO red lights. They'd better be 10 lanes wide too, because there will be a LOT of us speeding along. We need bandwidth and speed. To achieve that economically, service providers need to get a LOT out of their spectrum and hardware. The only way to do that is to make CDMA 3G happen and do it quickly. Doing without 3G is like doing without a brain. It won't be very popular. WAP, GPRS, and other attempts at data and mobile internet have been pathetic; slow and expensive and difficult to use and a waste of time [if they work at all]. The Bleeding EDGE will continue the failure. But those failures serve one very vital purpose for Nokia and the GSM Guild [GG]; they delay the onset of 3G and the tsunami of revenue away from Nokia and other GSM mainstays towards the 60 or so subscriber licensees of QUALCOMM. Nokia will be just one of the herd. They need all the delay they can get. The worry about 3G is perfect for creating delay. Fortunately, the big bids in Europe for 3G will see them steamrollered in short order. GPRS is looking like a lemon, same as WAP [did anyone seriously expect something different] Bring on 3G! Mqurice

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