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To: gdichaz who wrote (5879)	6/28/2000 9:02:00 AM
From: Mika Kukkanen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

Chaz, The reason operaotrs will go to GPRS is to ensure first to market, which is critical in gaining and/or retaining a client base. The first GPRS services are expected end of this year with more commercial roll-outs during Q1 and Q2 next. Handset availability withstanding. Your assumptions are based on IS-95, which in comparisson is a much younger technology (and consequently more advanced). Still the simple truth is the market, or more rightly the size of market. As for bandwidth, even at the first introduction of GPRS at the lower bit rates (I see it rising faster than some predictions) it makes little sense for higher speeds because of the services that will be on ffer from the kick-off and secondly the power of the handset. These of course will increase with time, and probably quicker than we can predict. GPRS provides an ideal medium for operators to get used to packet based technologies, but it aint the technology but more the business support systems (BSS) such as billing that is the problem for traditional ops. All for now as I am working on something quite big. It may even be an opportunity for some in the near future. More on that another time. M