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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (3295)	1/16/2000 12:06:00 PM
From: Jim Lurgio	Respond to of 34857

Will 3-g roll out or roll up? ebnews.com

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (3295)	1/16/2000 12:17:00 PM
From: Valueman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

GSM operators like Sonera started offering 38 kbps data transfer speed last September Come on--you and I both know that the 38K you cite is not the "true" speed. Do I think i-Mode will be beaten? Yes, I certainly do. I know you do too. Do you really think DoCoMo, who complained of constrained capacity years ago, will keep piling on data subs indefinitely? W-CDMA is not coming to save them by end 2000 as they had hoped, nor will it be there to save them by March 2001 as their fearless leader predicts. All the while, the CDMA service will be quietly spreading, increasing their data rates to 115K, gathering up subs, etc. What can DoCoMo do? They were handily whupped when DDI/IDO started service. With an aggressive free phone campaign, they have evened the score somewhat. It's only a matter of time though. DDI/IDO started with zero. They'll be just fine. As for HTML, if a sub needs the full internet experience, pop a card into your laptop and surf away at speeds higher than landline and at a cost of a fraction of the NTT wired rates. HTML on a phone is more of a nuisance than an advantage. All the CDMA phones in Japan are now WAP enabled, and their are hundreds of sites set up for service. It will be interesting to watch data wars escalate in the US. As VodaBAM/GTE/PrimeCo meld together, there will be quite a battle with WCOM/Sprint PCS as far as subs and data services go. The world is an interesting place.

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (3295)	1/17/2000 11:31:00 AM
From: Valueman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

Value - GSM operators like Sonera started offering 38 kbps data transfer speed last September. World is evolving, indeed. HSCSD--that's a breakthrough? Tie 4 channels together in a spectrally inefficient system to achieve a half ass data rate? Come on Tero. Even you can't call that anything but a chewing gum and band-aid fix. How you can compare that to a fully packet switched 64K(soon to be 86K, then on to 115K in short order) solution is beyond me.