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To: slacker711 who wrote (1596)	9/16/1999 2:39:00 PM
From: rel4490	Respond to of 13582

"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. " Is this a competitive plus for CDMA carriers or does this slow the roll out of data services for CDMA carriers as well? And on a related note, does the recent ATT/BT alliance signal a longer life for GSM and TDMA?

To: slacker711 who wrote (1596)	9/16/1999 3:59:00 PM
From: quidditch	Respond to of 13582

slacker, point #1 of the post is interesting in that, back in April, or whenever the WSJ ran the story, it was the lapse of rebates on phones by the carriers that was going to tank the Korean market and arrest CDMA subscriber growth trends. Wonder how they'll construe this? <gg> spectrum caps in US are problemmatic. qdog thinks failure to allocate additional spectrum will hurt all wireless digital deployment, including Q. I don't have a feel for this yet, one way or the other. qdog is passionate about it. India, like China, hard to read. Political winds blow this way and that; then you have a new party or politician in the ascendancy and everything changes. But you're right, this news sounds good. Best. Steven