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To: slacker711 who wrote (39809)	9/5/1999 1:03:00 PM
From: slacker711	Respond to of 152472

A little more detail on Sprint's timetable....it really couldnt be much slower. 1xrtt by late 2001 and 3x (2mpbs) by 2005!!!! Sprint to test high-speed wireless technology By TED SICKINGER The Kansas City Star Date: 09/01/99 22:15 Sprint PCS plans to start a series of vendor trials for third-generation wireless technology early next year -- a steppingstone to offering customers high-speed data applications through their wireless phones. Sprint PCS will begin offering wireless Web service later this month. The service will allow users to access the Internet and send e-mail over their wireless phones at speeds of up to 14.4 kilobits per second. Third-generation technology will allow carriers to use their networks more efficiently by using packet switching, which combines voice and data traffic. The result is increased capacity and faster data transmission. The first stage of third-generation wireless technology, called 1x, should allow the company to boost current data speeds tenfold, to 144 kilobits per second, by late 2001. Later upgrades, known as 3x, could push data speeds as high as 2 megabits per second by 2005. Achieving multimegabit transmission speeds will involve expensive network upgrades and new spectrum for most wireless carriers. Officials at Sprint are unsure whether there is adequate customer demand to make that leap. "Going from where we are today to 1x is a no-brainer," said Oliver Valente, vice president of technology and advanced systems development at Sprint PCS. "We need to make sure we understand the marketplace before going to 3x." The company's first trials of the technology are scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2000 at the company's technology center in Lenexa. It initially will test equipment from Samsung Telecommunications America.