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To: Elly Vasilopoulos who wrote (3597)	9/27/1999 3:25:00 PM
From: JP	Respond to of 4256

Not at all Elly -there are just several ways you can go about it -with different costs associated with each. If you are a trucking fleet you are willing to pay more for wider service -but if you just want to keep tabs on your daughters car for security reasons -you don't want to spend 50 or 70 dollars a month. All the options are via the phone companies. CDPD which is a hot one these days works on the band that your cellphone comunicates with when you are not on it (I think that is correct -Ned?). The modems for these things are similar to computer modems -dropping in price daily and getting better daily. They just need to tailor the product for the desired market -and there may be more than one option. When you sign up for net-locate you will probably be paying the phone company for the service and they would pay net-locate. JP

To: Elly Vasilopoulos who wrote (3597)	9/28/1999 7:22:00 PM
From: Ned Land	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4256

No, they don't have to puchase freqs, but they have to use certain ones. You cannot start a radio station and transmit on the same freq as another, right? Channels or freqs are allocated by governments and international agreement, since radio signals don't understand borders. Beyond this, there is the fact that some freqs have better properties than others. This is why, for example, that FM sounds better than AM. By asking what freq net-locate uses, I hoped to figure out what applications it was designed for -- if, in fact, it exists in a form other than as an instrument of promotion.