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To: quidditch who wrote (1593)	9/16/1999 12:44:00 PM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13582

A couple of news items that I have read in various places.... 1) Korea will be cutting (or removing?) a quarterly fee that is currently placed on mobile subscribers. My impression from the article was that it was a relatively large fee....This will occur sometime at the beggining of next year. 2) The FCC ruling yesterday did not significantly increase the existing sprectrum caps. The caps are now at 45MHz (unchanged I believe) for urban areas and 55MHz for rural areas. I think that this will significantly hamper the role out of data services by all non-CDMA carriers. 3) India has approved a license for another cell phone network. Previously all networks were REQUIRED to be GSM. The article does not mention CDMA by name but it definitely sounds like it.... While recommending the grant of provisional licences to DoT/MTNL, the Commission has ruled that all new licensees of cellular mobile service will be technology-wise neutral but the technology must be digital-based. So far, the Government has held that only GSM-based technology could be used. As a result when MTNL wanted to use a variant of cellular technology which was not based on GSM, the TRAI had ruled that this was not possible. indiaserver.com Slacker