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To: w molloy who wrote (56317)	12/23/1999 11:18:00 AM
From: Mika Kukkanen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Of course I underscored your point. I live in Europe and work within the telecom industry! Orange, who's main supply is Nokia, gave some pretty forward thinking visions...how true they turn out to be is anyone's guess!! They are developing a videophone to utilise HSCSD and so you are right it is at the expense of channels. At present there is no pricing structure public. BTW 9.6 kbps has been around for well over 6 years! Some (but very few) countries upgraded to 14.4, although that is no big improvement in reality. The megabits rates often floated around will not occur out in the street walking around. However anything over 300kbps is going to blow your mind anyway (not literally I hope). I have used trial systems of WCDMA, EDGE and GPRS. When using GPRS i was just so thrilled to be able to do more, such as Web surfing. EDGE permitted pretty good live video conferencing and actually WCDMA didn't really improve it that much. There seems to be too much paranoia for this time of year. M