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To: jackmore who wrote (11135)	5/31/2000 1:58:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 13582

<...Bourelly says factors like weak signals, signal ghosting, and intermittent connections ? all the problems that can dog users of mobile phones ? can be disastrous for Web applications optimized for a typical, wired, network environment. Broken connections can cause applications, both client and server side, to crash and even momentary interruptions in signal can cause large file downloads to fail...> That's why GPRS and EDGE are doomed on takeoff. Speed is of the essence as Irwin Jacobs says. HDR is great, not just because it saves people time, but since it gets the work done in a second or so, instead of the grinding GPRS speed, it will lose connection and crash the download effort far, far fewer times than the sluggish, inefficient, hot, battery-flattening, expensive and generally rotten GPRS effort. GPRS will drive people nuts. Data never took off in the 1990s because it was far too slow and far too expensive. Subscriber hardware was expensive and slow too. NOW things are all primed. HDR will do a spectacular job. GPRS is simply too slow and spectrum gobbling too expensive [see value of spectrum in UK and soon to be seen in USA]. Mqurice