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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Catcher who wrote (1135)	11/24/1999 2:46:00 AM
From: Bux	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12231

Bill Joy, Sun's co-founder and chief scientist, said that the growth of communications bandwidth, or capacity, will eventually make the cost of communicating "close to free."Wireless networks are also extending their reach so that they soon will be "pervasive," he said. But, Joy said, U.S. companies are likely to be at a disadvantage in that market because ofthe country's failure to develop common standards for the most widespread of such appliances, the cellular phone. "The U.S. has done a particularly bad job at this by creating too much competition," he said. There are too many different standards and carriers don't carry each other's signals, he said. What?? And this is the same company that accused MSFT of stifling competition when they were busy doing their part to form the Wintel "monopoly?" Oh, I get it, with computers, standards and dominance is bad but with telecom they are good. OK. Bux