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To: axial who wrote (6899)	5/2/2000 1:12:00 AM
From: axial	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Postscript - It is probably not helpful to discuss mobile wireless in the context of any particular company's technology. The beginning point of thinking about this subject was the technology and the partners referenced in my last, but references could be (should be) generic. I suppose it would be better to posit a network, a domain, built to encompass all forms of digitized communication - voice, video, straight data, music, fixed and mobile. The premise is that all data is digital, thus the requirement for VoIP and QoS: isn't that the ideal we want? Meaning that the cellphone call from a train, in New York to a car, in LA, gets handed off seamlessly from each network component to the next. The absence of discontinuities would be the key to such a network. For example, most satellite-enabled internet connections that I am aware of require a POTS line to complete the loop. What is needed is true two-way satellite communication. The design of a cellphone network in a particular city is driven more by internal, than external demands. Nobody seems to be referencing mobile communications as part of a contiguous whole.

To: axial who wrote (6899)	5/14/2000 12:25:00 PM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Re: Mobile Wireless Data and Alcatel's Plans "To me, the present piecemeal approach offers no clear vision, no structure." Jim- Well I don't know enough about what is going on in the mobile wireless Internet sector to comment on your post. But I do know that Alcatel(sym:ALA) CEO, Serge Tchuruk seems heavily focused on the evolution path mobile wireless data is taking. Going so far as to name their mobile wireless product line, Evolium. As I am a somewhat ignorant investor in the wireless data sector, IMVHO they appear to be thinking out the game plan quite precisely. You may want to take some time to watch/listen to his comments at: alcatel.com If you click on the Part# 4 portion, and corresponding slide number 27, it takes you right to where their mobile wireless Internet JV with Fujitsu discussion begins. The JV is throwing 2,000(!) engineers at developing products for the evolution to mobile wireless Internet. As I've pointed out before at: Message 12992715 ...GSM is currently king of the wireless standards world and this is where the Alacatel/Fujitsu JV is positioning themselves from what I understand. I don't know enough to evaluate what they are doing. All I can say is Alcatel is treating it with great priority. -MikeM(From Florida)