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To: slacker711 who wrote (4287)	11/11/2001 12:16:49 PM
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Hi Slacker - Good points. "The reason for the early seeding of handsets (without a customers knowledge) is that 1xrtt will provide a 1.6-2x increace in voice capacity for PCS. This will only be true for the new handsets....so they have a vested interest in speeding the roll-out of new handsets even if consumers dont see much of a benefit yet." ...Smooth move! One of the often unstated benefits of the newer forms of modulation is capacity increase. I think that point was lost in all the hoopla:"Higher data rates! Messaging! Maps! E-transactions!" Costs for the technology are the key, both for carrier upgrades, and users. In the near-to-middle-term, there is no doubt (in my mind, anyway) that CDMA will be the winner. Longer-term, I believe that it will be OFDM, though the road-map is unreadable, right now. Many are unaware that OFDM was considered (and rejected, for immaturity) for 3G. Regards, Jim

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