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To: gdichaz who wrote (3763)	3/12/2000 10:45:00 AM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

That's OK... chaz - I can take my lumps by now. And unlike many people think, I'm not dissenting because I get a kick out of some phony maverick act (though I do... I can't deny that). I'm dissenting, because I'm seeing this huge enthusiasm over GPRS and WAP building up among European operators - a tidal wave of mobile internet network and content investment and promotion. It's a realignment of the entire mobile business. And then I discuss these things with Americans and the response is: GPRS? Huh? But that won't ever work! I just don't think that US CDMA experts are the right people to decide what will or won't work for Omnitel or Telefonica. I think the operators are the final judge and jury over what mobile internet is going to be. Their engineers know much more about what will or won't work for GSM than any of us ever will. Karl - WAP cycle hardly ends with this years models. You see... all of these models will have to be replaced when GPRS arrives commercially this Christmas and quadruples the transmission speed. And then these phones will have to be replaced when EDGE arrives 12 months later. No doubt some consumers will skip a step. But perhaps not so many. After all - the 16 months is already the norm for the mobile phone upgrade cycle in Europe. It's not a stretch to believe that it can be whittled down to 13 or 14 months. And that would fall in line with the successive mobile internet technology waves. Tero