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To: Joe NYC who wrote (43411)	10/5/1999 4:14:00 PM
From: engineer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

I agree with you, but then your "tiny little packets" concept just went out the window. IF you bring cut down web pages to the masses, they will consume more packets, and thus fill up the system....

To: Joe NYC who wrote (43411)	10/5/1999 5:42:00 PM
From: James Sinclair	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Jozef, A day or two ago, you drew a distinction between the bandwidth required to support laptop connections and that required to support a limited display on a phone or a PDA. While you make good points on how the phones and PDAs can be supported with lower bandwidth connections, you don't seem to have much 'sympathy' for those of us who are lugging our laptops around the country from week to week and who therefore may have higher expectations of the amount of data that we'd like to access. Not to put too personal a spin on this, but are you saying that the wireless carriers shouldn't size their networks to support my requirements because you can get by with a simple browser in your cell phone? I've been working with computer networks since the early 1980's, and if I've learned any lesson its that you should always initially build your network bigger than what you currently think you need because once the network's in place, people will find all sorts of new applications to fill up the available bandwidth. I got my first look at the original Mosaic web browser about 6 years ago, and look how far the web has come in that short amount of time. Before that, I thought my 14.4K modem connection to Compuserve was all I'd ever want, now I've got a cable modem in my house. I don't pretend to know what the wireless data world will look like in 5 or 6 years, but IMO the wireless carriers would be foolish beyond belief to base their data strategies on the capabilities of todays devices.