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To: Caxton Rhodes who wrote (6722)	7/31/2000 1:56:07 PM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 34857

The problem with cars is that people use them outside city centers. Europeans are sometimes liable to do crazy stuff like driving between cities and towns. Now - GPRS is going to cover something like 70% of the geography of most European countries within nine months. 3G networks will cover 50% of the population in major markets around 2005. What's the difference between geographic and population coverage? It's a big difference, Caxton. Especially when you're talking about telematics. 3G networks will initially be concentrated in population centers - GSM networks have been built during the last ten years to cover transportation routes like roads. GPRS/GSM is the only way to approach telematics in markets like Europe, China and India - because it's the geographical coverage that matters with cars, not population coverage. You get no benefit out of offering a service that does not function on freeways or smaller towns. If you think 40 kbps is too slow for telematics, you need to be more specific about just what you think will be the crucial applications demanding more than that. You really think that video streaming will be a must for cars? Houston to Caxton: we are losing contact, please return from the orbit. Don't float off in the vacuum of futuristic delirium. It's the coverage that is the crucial issue here, not data transfer speed. Do you read? Tero

To: Caxton Rhodes who wrote (6722)	7/31/2000 5:12:54 PM
From: Gus	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 34857

Earth to Caxton. 1) Why are you comparing the wireline Internet to the wireless Internet? The obvious difference in display sizes and interfaces already tell you the wireless web is going to be different. Now, repeat this a few zillion times so you won't make the same simplistic mistake over and over again: location-based services, time-sensitive services, and user-sensitive services. 2) Docomo's I-Mode, which uses compact HTML at a piddling 9.6 kbps, is now projected to have 17 million subscribers at year's end. That's a 70% increase in the previous projection of 10 million subscribers despite the presence of DDI's competing CDMAOne service with 64 kbps. Doesn't that make you slap yourself on the right side of the head and think? 3) Telematics is already gaining momentum in Western Europe. Let us know once you figure out the amount of land trade that goes on in that Eurasian land mass, will you? Trafficmaster - Motorola and Trafficmaster, Europe's foremost provider of live traffic information, have agreed to co-operate with Blaupunkt, Europe's leading supplier of navigation systems, via GSM. By adding the Blaupunkt Travel Pilot navigation system Travel Pilot DX-N to current Motorola/Trafficmaster applications, the latest navigation systems will be able to display a constant stream of dynamic traffic information without any interaction required from the user. corporate-ir.net The GSM embedded module will be integrated directly into the car radio unit. This integration provides access to services that are important to drivers and passengers, such as telephone, real-time traffic information, navigation services and e-mail. The access to e-mail is available from the customers' home and business computers. To ensure that the driver can concentrate fully on driving, all messages are presented using voice recognition technology and a high-quality "text to speech" process. corporate-ir.net