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To: JohnG who wrote (2951)	12/7/1999 11:07:00 AM
From: Rene Madsen	Respond to of 34857

Jeez, relax John. You seem to overlook the fact that your alternative - analog phones - just don't do ANY encryption. Look at the figures: 100+ Million GSM phones in Europe, 215 million worldwide. It's not going to change for that overnight as little as you Americans are still by and large use what we consider historic technology. At the current turnover rate the whole market of mobile phones will be replaced in 2-3 years time, so that's the time it would take to have replaced the current encryption algorithm with something better. Another thing you have to remember is that when the GSM standard was implemented, only the US had 128+ bit encryption. This is no longer the case - Nokia could produce 2048+ bit encryption tomorrow if need be. Go Nokia!

To: JohnG who wrote (2951)	12/7/1999 11:21:00 AM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

The "Chinese" have just placed another round of major GSM network orders for Ericsson and Motorola. We might as well stop talking about China Unicom and China Telecom as "the Chinese". That's like referring to AT&T as "the Americans". I still can't figure out why Unicom keeps buying more GSM infra every single month if they are planning a major CDMA investment. We now have about two weeks left to see that massive CDMA investment wave that certain industry people promised would happen "during the year 1999". Should we start a count-down? Tero