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To: engineer who wrote (3907)	12/3/1999 12:13:00 PM
From: Bux	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

Thanks Clark, Engineer for the Circuit/packet discussion. For those who are wondering why an investor is even interested in the technical specifics, besides my own curiosity, I am trying to get a feel for how the various technologies compare to one another and how quickly we are moving toward a wireless world in which thousands of devices can stay abreast of changing data while consuming only minimal resources. I believe that the call will always maintain a single call channel and if no data is going back and forth, it will transmit at the lowest rate. I assume this in reference to the recently announced MOT solution. In your (or Clark's or whoever knows about these things) opinion, would this "maintenance connection" consume about the same amount of network resources as an IS-95 phone that was turned on but not being used or would it be a "more active" connection that uses significantly more network resources. I am also interested in how this would compare to HDR, 1XRTT and CDMA2000 but any info is appreciated. I originally thought these issues could be understood by neatly categorizing each connection or technical standard as either "packet" or "circuit" but, alas, if only things were so simple! Bux