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To: gdichaz who wrote (705)	8/9/1999 5:08:00 PM
From: engineer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13582

Boy, I am glad a 3 year old product generates this much excitment..... This card was a hack of an existing product, in that they added a simple serial port to it to allow connection directly to the phone. The card is a simple telephone line modem which can act as 1) a regular wireline modem with speeds up to 33.6 kbps, 2) a regular modem which modulates it signals on an analog phone audio port (using the AMPS analog system), and 3) using a serial cable IF and WHEN CDMA data is available, use CDMA data to move data. The big problem is that since 1996 when it was introduced, it has never been able to do CDMA data, as there is NO DATA out there. It can do analog data, it can do wireline data, but it cannot in any way do CDMA data until the oprators start this service up. Again, write them a letter and ask them for it. You cannot do packet data without this CDMA stuff in place. You must have an analog service to do data with it today, but if PCS and or Celular have CDMA data then this card can do data on either.