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To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (41980)	9/20/1999 9:19:00 PM
From: Kent Rattey	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Monday September 20, 8:56 pm Eastern Time (Note: this article is ''in progress''; there will likely be an update soon.) Japan's DDI says considering merger with IDO TOKYO, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Japanese telecom carrier DDI Corp said on Tuesday that it is considering a merger with Nippon Idou Tsushin Co (IDO), but no final decision has yet been reached. Asked about a media report that DDI was in the final stage of merger talks with IDO, a DDI spokesman said, ''We are considering it (a merger), but no final decision has been made yet.'' The Nihon Keizai Shimbun business daily reported on Tuesday that DDI, Japan's second-largest telecom carrier and an affiliate of Kyocera Corp , was in the final stage of talks with IDO, a cell phone subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corp , to merge as early as next April. A Toyota spokesman said, however, that his company had not heard of any talks between DDI and IDO aimed at a merger. DDI said in a statement it was already cooperating with IDO in a digital cellular phone service in Japan, called cdmaOne, that was launched in April. (Note: this article is ''in progress''; there will likely be an update soon.)

To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (41980)	9/20/1999 9:40:00 PM
From: MileHigh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

There are 30 million CDMA-cellular subscribers worldwide, representing 11% of the world total of various wireless systems. In South Korea alone, there are 19 million CDMA-cellular subscribers. The number is estimated to soar to 140 million subscribers in 2003, representing around 20% of the total cellular phone market.

To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (41980)	9/20/1999 11:29:00 PM
From: idler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

<Chunghwa plans to adopt CDMA technology supporting the IS-95B standard, which offers transmission speeds up to 64Kbps. The global system for mobile communications (GSM), currently the mainstream digital-cellular technology, offers a maximum speed of 9.6Kbps. Some GSM-system suppliers have introduced general-packed radio service (GPRS) to hike the speed to 100Kbps. However, no handsets support the upgraded system.> According to Q analyst conference, the path to get data from GSM / TDMA is "more convoluted"; GPRS (GSM) has 8 slots and makes it hard to hand off because you need an empty channel. [?] My impression was Q was pretty confident GPRS was inherently inferior as a data communications technology and wouldn't ultimately be able to handle large volumes demanded. However, I'm still trying to understand this, but this may be an important point. If this description needs correction/amplification technically, someone please clarify or amplify. -- idler.