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To: Dennis Roth who wrote (10042)	5/13/2000 4:39:00 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

Dennis, << Telstra and Nortel Networksexpect to complete rollout of nationwide CDMA mobile wireless communications service in Australia by the end of July, less than two years after network buildout began and a full two months ahead of schedule. >> As a complement to your post on Telstra you may be interested in the following article from a May 9, 2000, Reuters Newsbyte called Australia: Speedy Telstra Move On Data. The article discusses Telstra's moves to GPRS but also mentions a recent CDMA demo of higher speed data downloads: >> Australia: Speedy Telstra Move On Data May 9, 2000 - By ADRIAN LYNCH * Mobile Data * Reuters gprsworld.com TELSTRA has neatly positioned itself to become Australia's biggest player in high-speed mobile data services. The move follows predictions that data traffic over Telstra's mobile network would outstrip voice traffic in five years. Mobile traffic would change due to the release of high-speed data handsets, upgrades to present-day handsets with expanded higher memory SIM (single inline module) cards, and the installation of software on Telstra's mobile network that would increase data carriage speeds by up to 1000 per cent, Telstra OnAir managing director Dick Simpson said. Australian mobile users were quickly moving to accept the use of mobile-carried data services, he said. Telstra had set up a wireless multimedia team to expand the offerings on telstra.com, the main mobile data carriage portal in Australia, he said. It had also signed a deal with CNN to carry a text-based news service, and Telstra Research Laboratories was setting up a developers' program to encourage content providers to supply telstra.com with a suite of information services, Mr Simpson said. Since sealing an intercarrier deal with mobile rivals Optus and Vodafone on April 12 for message data carriage, Telstra in less than three weeks had almost tripled its mobile short message service (SMS) usage rate, he said. The 20-cent SMS messages on the Telstra mobile network had increased from 300,000 a week in mid-April to 800,000 a week by the end of April. To harvest a bigger share of the mobile data network, Telstra this week said it would start using its mobile network to handle high-speed internet sessions in customer trials. On Tuesday, Telstra demonstrated using a CDMA (code division multiple access) digital mobile handset and a US technology that could download data to a portable computer at 86Kbps. Conventional technology for such data downloads is currently 9.6Kbps for mobiles. Mr Simpson said commercial trials starting later this month using Telstra's GSM digital network and the general packet radio service (GPRS) component of the wireless application protocol (WAP) would initially allow users to almost triple their internet access rate to 24Kbps. GPRS uses a packet-based data transmission protocol rather than GSM's traditional and slower circuit-switched data transfer system. "GPRS will handle data initially at 24Kbps, but I expect we will be handling data early in 2001 at 80Kbps," Mr Simpson said. GPRS compresses data in packets rather than continuous streams, allowing faster transfers and lower costs because the user is charged per packet. Telstra OnAir Product Development Group head Rick Wakeham said Telstra's GSM data service was being used by 3200 customers to access the internet using circuit switched data transfer. The most-used services were email, share price information, entertainment guides and CNN news, Mr Wakeham said. Introduction of higher speed GPRS on the GSM network would dramatically increase use of mobile data services as internet-ready handsets became more widely available and users of conventional handsets discovered they could make their handsets internet-capable through the installation of expanded memory SIM cards, Mr Wakeham said. (c) Nationwide News Proprietary Ltd, 2000. AUSTRALIAN 09/05/2000 P62 (C)Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited. << - Eric -

To: Dennis Roth who wrote (10042)	5/15/2000 8:40:00 AM
From: quidditch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

Tnks Dennis: Telstra CDMA rollout is all the more significant in that it has incumbent AMPS and GSM mobile networks. CDMA build-out originally intended to supplant analog portion of the Telstra combined networks and to provide additional capacity in spectrum constrained major cities; fact that it moves immediately to test CDMA 2000 indicates possibility that it is considering replacing the GSM network entirely as it moves to higher data throughput systems. Steve