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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (4941)	5/21/2000 12:25:00 PM
From: gdichaz	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 34857

Tero: Chuckle. No question GSM is alive and well. The movement toward wireless data will be accelerating in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 - so a strengthening of the data arm of the GSM installed base is worth doing. Does HDR have anything to offer in that? Will be interesting to see. Best. Chaz

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (4941)	5/21/2000 12:29:00 PM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Excuse me - but what is the "viability" problem of GSM? I think you guys are miscommunicating again...I think gdichaz is speaking of the current spectrum that is allocated to GSM/GPRS (900 Mhz/1800MHz) in Europe. What is the next step of evolution for this spectrum? I'm not familiar with the size of these spectrum bands....would they allow a W-CDMA overlay? What is the price/performance cost of EDGE vs. a CDMA overlay? At a guess....I doubt most operators will do much with these bands over the next 5 years (unless wireless data explodes beyond our wildest dreams). Of course, I think that wireless operators are missing their chance to become the world's largest ISP's....BWDIK. Slacker