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To: DaveMG who wrote (366)	7/29/1999 12:33:00 PM
From: Mika Kukkanen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

DaveMG: Good points, and there is noway I could explain away other people's views. I have used a demo GPRS system and it comprises of a printed circuit board rack and uses GSM and its air-interface as the conduit for a packet based service. This in theory would mean no network overlay, although it may be more dependent on the fixed infrastructure supporting it.There might have been some manouvering by Qcom and the CDG in the market of late (actually I am very sure of it), that in my opinion has led to a general view that GPRS will involve an expensive overlay. I have no idea where Gregg got his information and have asked him if he would divulge in my previous post. The flexibilty question of moving to cdmaOne is an interesting one for the longer term and I wont even attempt to answer in this post. Mature markets outside of Europe would include Singapore and Hong Kong in Asia, but you may have missed the point about GSM/GPRS/EDGE sitting alongside a 3G system. Everywhere outside N. America is allocating new spectrum for 3G services. As I have asked before, who do you think has more capacity: A US operator with cdmaOne/2000 or a European operator with both GSM/GPRS/EDGE and WCDMA? Now having that, the need to move to cdmaOne now becomes a little immaterial (as I said above, maybe longer term, but how long is long?). The move to cdmaOne migh be problematic within GSM dominated countries. We'll need an engineer to explain the conflicts of having ETACS or NMT, GSM and cdmaOne fighting over the same spectrum (at 900MHz). There are other market issues too, as it's not just that one technology is more superior than another (something I think some have forgotten). regards, Mika