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To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (2234)	10/12/1999 1:58:00 PM
From: engineer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

It really has nothing to do with the radio standard, but it does have alot to do with harmonizing the internet IP standard. Imagine that if the radio standards were all just packet bearers and any one could be used just as well as the next, then a truly multi-mode device would need the next layer up, the IP transport layer to be all the same to simplify and harmonize that part as well. Think of a ways off in the future (5-6 years) where the radio standards are possible to assimilate with a single DSP that can modulate and demodulate most any of them. then you have a packet engine which can feed the next layer. Mobile IP just makes the whole world (wireless and fixed) work the same. It also allows many new features which the world can agree on. Email which is pushed out to your terminal, rather than the terminal always pulling it down. (i.e. your email knows where to deliver itself, rather than waiting for you to sign in and download it.) This allows email to be delivered all day long no matter what your doing at a very slow pace in the background while your phone is in standby. Many other new features come out when you do this.