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To: gue who wrote (2885)	11/2/1999 7:24:00 PM
From: cfoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

Article is good news because it means service providers will have to upgrade. And the Q will be ready! On CC, Dr. Jacobs said that new base station chips will allow up to 30 channels per chip. Up from 1 channel ten years ago!

To: gue who wrote (2885)	11/2/1999 9:19:00 PM
From: qdog	Respond to of 13582

Gee golly, I've been barking this for sometime now and is no real surprise to me. The bandwidth demands of the services, set to start in 2001, are likely to come up against limitations on carriers' radio spectrum and slow the user experience to a crawl under heavy use, the observers said. With multicoded modulation schemes being used in the nextgen, they will expierence more bit/Hertz efficency. However, more needs to be done on the software front. I have been an outspoken critic of King Kong Microsoft's bellicose attitude's that they aren't respinsible for gluttonous and inefficent use of bandwidth in the wired world. The companies in the software side that focus on this in the wireless world will capitalize on it in the form of increased sales. My favorite solution is having appealing templates resident on the appliance that can be altered/updated for visual appeal with only download of pertinent information. Screw pics and bandwidth pigs graphics, I'm only really concern with information, ie, price quotes, airline time schedules, news items, etc. A company that can take a graphic and reduce it in size, but expand it on the appliance that is visually useable will also be a winner. Bandwidth in frequency is only finite and the software side is going to be forced to put up or shut up. One IS manager is optimistic that mobile employees in his company will use high-speed services to access back-end enterprise data. "I'm not concerned with shared spectrum at this point, because I'm assuming they'll roll out the services intelligently," said John Weaver, vice president of information technology at Elektra Entertainment Group, in New York. Clueless computer administrator. Here is a plug and play genius that has fiver optic and high speed cables in short distances that has no clue what the frequency capabilities of his system are, just what his throughput is. His mobile users will pay a premium price for services and the average user will be subject to waits and off hours to use. Here is the folks that need to throw the guanlet down to the software manufacturers and demand that they provide solutions that are cognizant of limitations of B/W in frequency instead of raw throughput speeds.