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To: John Biddle who wrote (1694)	9/19/1999 1:01:00 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

John, << Since the world phones are relatively new, and the touting of GSM "go anywhere" is not new, where is the disconnect? Have they been stretching >> In the old days <g> (before the Bosch World Phone appeared over a year ago) a US subscriber traveling to Europe would remove the "Subscriber Identity Module"(SIM) from his GSM-1900 phone and rent a GSM-900 model at the airport (before or after arriving Europe) and insert his SIM in the rental phone. Same in reverse when Europeans visit here (despite big gaps in GSM coverage here like the little metros of Chicago & Dallas). Subscription portability if not phone portability. Worldphones make it easier. << Didn't Q pick up rights to make GSM chips in the ERICY deal? Why wouldn't they be pushing CDMA/GSM chips as a way to ease a European or other GSM transition? Or is it just too early? >> Perhaps just too early and focus has been elsewhere? I conjecture that there will be dual mode CDMA/GSM (or tri-mode CDMA/GSM/AMPS) tri-band phones one of these days, despite Tero's persistent references to the technical difficulties involved. I would think that Motorola could be first since they have good experience with both GSM and CDMA. - Eric -