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To: Dennis Roth who wrote (10600)	3/7/2000 8:41:00 PM
From: Jim Parkinson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

More on data. I just learned that you can hook a laptop directly up to the G* car kit. You can obviously do it on fixed sites too. I forgot to ask about going from a laptop to the phone but I suspect that will be doable.

To: Dennis Roth who wrote (10600)	3/7/2000 9:25:00 PM
From: John Stichnoth	Respond to of 29987

Hi, Dennis. Further on your points about the usefulness of 9600 baud rate--The WAP consortium, and Phone.com etc. are developing a lengthy value chain of content providers, of material specifically designed for the little-bitty screens that cell phones have. I would expect any G* "internet" capability to be able to access these sites. Also, the (good) point has been made that bandwidth is largely useless if the target is a cell phone. The phones don't have the memory to retain a whole lot of information. And the little screens can't handle a lot of information. I realize that if the target is a laptop, things change. But, for a lot of uses (eg., stock quotes, email, etc.) people will be using phones "on the run", not sitting down with their laptops. Best, John

To: Dennis Roth who wrote (10600)	3/8/2000 4:17:00 AM
From: John Walliker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Dennis, They told me they had to run 400 feet of coax from the car kit up a roof support and horizonal to an antenna on the roof of the convention center. The car kit wasn't designed to work with a 400 foot coax run, but it worked anyway. They must have used some VERY low-loss coax! John