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To: Kent Rattey who wrote (5139)	5/31/2000 10:33:00 AM
From: tero kuittinen	Respond to of 34857

No, Ken, it does not look like "reality" is 13 kbps. That's what you may get in the sparsely populated rural areas - where Americans get no digital service at all. Carping at hypothetical data transfer speed in the hills of Lappland is hardly a fair way to assess GPRS. You keep ignoring the NTT-DoCoMo lesson about how massivley popular 9.6 kbps packet-switched technology can be. 40 kbps is literally something you can't envision - you haven't seen the demos of the products that this service makes possible. If you had any idea how much the hypothetical HDR handset is going to weigh, you'd take a small pause in GPRS-bashing. Tero