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To: Jon Koplik who wrote (621)	8/6/1999 11:37:00 AM
From: H. Bradley Toland, Jr.	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 13582

To all; Can somebody explain to me why MCI/Worldcomm is not involved with cellular telephony? Seems like a real blunder to me. Same theme, why isn't ATT promoting CDMA? Another blunder? Regards bt

To: Jon Koplik who wrote (621)	8/10/1999 6:38:00 PM
From: puzzlecraft	Respond to of 13582

Jon, I read, via hardcopy, the Wired article "Put the Net in Your Pocket - How Nokia Will Wireless the World". I recommend it for anyone who wants some insight into another corporate culture and in the Finnish, in general. One GSM feature introduced by Nokia in 1993 is SMS (Short Message Service) "a form of email you can send from phone to phone". Although limited to 160 characters this is an incredibly popular feature. Does CDMA have anything like this? As mentioned on this board, SMS has been greatly enhanced by SIM cards which "allow Europeans to move their contact lists, preferences, and account info easily from phone to phone". What will be the CDMA equivalent? (perhaps Bluetoothing info from phone to phone?). Anyway an interesting article... also the concept of the global datasphere with phones being a personal "bubble" of data one takes with oneself and uses to interface with the global datasphere. QCOM has to hustle, things are moving fast... WAP will be big... glad QCOM saw the light here and dropped the brain-dead "web clipping" idea. GPRS and EDGE will provide additional speed for WAPping on GSM. BTW... "GSM"... "Great Software Monster"... was a major software project in the early days... figuring how to tie various systems together.. "international roaming, call forwarding, SMS messaging". John