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To: engineer who wrote (28743)	11/11/2002 11:15:36 AM
From: John Biddle	Read Replies (1) of 197030

There is no reason that a GSM1x phone could not support GSM also, since it contains all the major pieces to do GSM. I agree with this. Correct me if I'm wrong here, but technically, to the end users, there is no such thing as a GSM1x phone, meaning some special phone to use GSM1x. There are GSM phones which continue to be able to use the GSM network as always. There are 1x phones, which could use the presumably newly introduced 1x basestations. There might even be phones which have both GSM & 1x or GSM & GPRS & 1x and can use either technology. But there is nothing new on the consumer side. Since the Gartner Dataquest analysts are usually pretty sharp, I'm guessing (not having seen the original analysis he did) that he must be referring to contractual, or political issues, which could potentially be leveraged to ostracize the customers of the carrier who introduced 1x. This idea seems like something carriers might do, so my next question is "On what basis could they do it legally?"

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