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To: John Hauser who wrote (60717)	1/7/2000 3:19:00 PM
From: marginmike	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

Hey john keep convincing yourself! 1xrt will be here in months works on Sprint already. I wonder if KYO, ACER, and SONY wont have those CDMA 1xrt laptops in a few months. Gottem in JAPAN. John you are over your head, MCOM is toast I dont need to convince anyone of that. However why you insist on coming over here befudles me?

To: John Hauser who wrote (60717)	1/7/2000 3:25:00 PM
From: Zeke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

I have been watching them for some time. I like the idea of the Ricochet modem because, like the web itself, is sort of self healing. I don't think it can compete with cable because of the data rate but I understand they are moving up in frequency and will get extra bandwidth. I tried to get the US Army to look at this type of system to track equipment in a battle but they wanted a satellite system instead so we built a prototype using Qualcomm OmniTrack system. Worked well over thousands of miles. We could control and monitor equipment in the field as it did its job. Thanks for reminding me of Ricochet.

To: John Hauser who wrote (60717)	1/7/2000 4:20:00 PM
From: slacker711	Respond to of 152472

And, get this, it works. I have no idea what your technical background is but I suggest you take a look at the spec's for HDR. It basically seems like a packet-switched version of IS-95....just like 1xrtt (which will be out in the next 9 months). The other key is that they are going to be able to change some parameters due to the fact that they HDR reserve channels for data only. This isnt a breakthrough....it seems to be an evolutionary step in CDMA. Now this doesnt mean that providers will definitely adopt it....but I am pretty confident that it will work. Just my 2 cents... Slacker