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Pastimes : G&K Investing for Curmudgeons -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Eric L who wrote (520)	1/13/2000 7:14:00 AM
From: Sommers	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 22706

Hey curmudgeons. After two moves in the past 30 days (Ft. Myers to Boston and then Boston to Hong Kong) I'm finally getting caught up reading nearly 1,700 posts. <<I could use my Omnipoint subscription >> I'm now in Kowloon and using Omnipoint (Mot. #L7089) as my primary phone. It works just as you said Eric: If someone dials my Boston number, it rings here on the other side of the world. Sweet. Another note for the record: during a car ride from New Canaan, CT to Boston a few weeks ago, I read SI on my laptop using the Q-860 thin phone until my laptop battery went dead - the important point here is that I had uninterrupted wireless Sprint access while averaging 60 MPH for over two hours. Impressive IMO. I'm so hooked on wireless data that upon arrival in HKG I bought a Nokia 9110 Communicator (not available in the USA). HT sells a couple CDMA digital phones, but they are not data ready. GSM is the only wireless data network here. Here's a tidbit for LindyBill, FWIW, when I was in Tokyo waiting in the Red Carpet lounge for my next flight, a man sitting a few seats over picked up a land line phone and asked someone on the other end for a stock quote. Not a list of quotes mind you - he only wanted ONE. I was half asleep, but hearing someone mention Qualcomm was like being hit by a lightning bolt considering Q was all I was thinking about since I boarded the 24 flight (yes I have a life). It took alot resisting the urge to engage the guy. But wait, it gets better. On the flight to Kai Tak, I was two seats over from a guy reading what looked like a bunch of math formulas, it reminded me of what I was looking at recently in one of Mr. Viterbi's books on spread spectrum. In passing, I just said, "You must be an engineer." He said yes and we started talking and haven't stopped since. He is a wireless engineer consulting for a UK company called Airspan (he's English, but US educated). He is currently working with a team working with local companies implementing CDMA in small countries surrounding the Indian Ocean: Madagascar and Sri Lanka to name a few. While my daughters slept, we talk for hours. He was surprised how much I knew about HDR and agreed that no one can touch CDMA's superior technology and Q's approach offering hi speed wireless internet access at a low cost (all you have to do is add an HDR channel card to an existing cell site and you're reading to rock). HDR is capable of data rates up to 2.4 Mbps! And I thought 14.4 Kbps was impressive. Anyway I'll be roaming around HKG for a few months, before moving back to Cambridge to start school. I feel better and better about Q every week. This will surely be an exciting year for us all.