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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (4111)	4/11/2000 9:18:00 AM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Respond to of 34857

I can see how supplementary services like text messaging are hindered by the standards fragmentation. But all of the standards are compatible with "voice"--the original killer app. And even cheap voice has not been too compelling. Absent SMS et al, don't you feel Europe would still have higher penetration than the US? When you can have a landline phone with unlimited local calling for $13 a month (especially when you can also use that line for unlimited dial-up Internet access), it seems many people cannot be bothered with wireless. But perhaps if the US had a single digital standard (or at least a single messaging standard, if that is possible), cellular penetration would have seen some of the fabled "increasing returns" stuff.