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To: JohnG who wrote (10992)	5/29/2000 11:23:00 AM
From: quartersawyer	Respond to of 13582

<GPRS transmits data in excess of 115 kilobits per second.> Unbiased, more useful number "compared with the capabilities offered now" seems to be 30. <We can see from this analysis that the maximum theoretical speeds available over GPRS are in fact higher than 95B but less than 1x-but in initial commercial implementations we expect 95B to outperform GPRS. KT Freetel, and Hansol in Korea, commercially launched 95B in 1999 while DDI and IDO of Japan launched commercial service in 2000. Several, but not all, of the GPRS network infrastructure vendors are planning to support the maximum eight channels in their technical implementations. GPRS has a disadvantage in that the initial GPRS capable mobile terminals are expected to support only a maximum of four simultaneous channels. GPRS and voice both use the same traffic channels, meaning that that both voice and data are competing for the same resource. Network operators, wherever they are in the world, are reluctant to dedicate channels or assign priority to data over voice. Because of real world limitations the typical bandwidth available to a GPRS user is expected to be less than 30 kbps, similar to the wire-line data transfer rates in 1999 and below today's 95B.> mobiledataevolution.com