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To: brian h who wrote (93)	1/26/2000 5:24:00 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 343

Hello Brian, << more to add >> I don't have a lot to add but since you are into wireless I'll add just a few comments. I have exchanged some posts with Mark Oliver on the "Access Anywhere, Anytime. Cell Phones/PDA's join the Net" thread about the use of smart cards (including GSM SIM cards) in wireless mobile telephony for data security, and data applications. That thread has not been much livelier than this one <g> but it has been an interesting thread in the past and could be again. More importantly it appears that there will in fact be a SIM (or UIM as it is called in 3G) cdma2000. I don't have the references handy (they are buried kind of deep on either the 3GPP, 3GPP2, or UMTS Forum web sites). The SIM has long been a differentiator between GSM & CDMA and without a SIM there can not be authentication to a GSM network so until there is a SIM in a CDMA handset Q gets no revenue out of Europe or other places dominated by GSM. - Eric -