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To: tradeyourstocks who wrote (6871)	8/4/2000 2:58:51 PM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 34857

Micro - cdma2000 is a contender in every auction. Nobody forced MCI to pull out of the British and German auctions. For some reason they decided to do so. Nothing forced Japan Telecom to pick W-CDMA either - it's a PDC operator, they could have gone with cdma2000. Brazil decided it needs to ensure a W-CDMA future and picked the 1 800 MHz frequency instead of 1 900 MHz. I can buy the theory about evil, protectionist Europeans. I have some trouble buying the theory about evil, protectionist Japanese, Brazilians, Koreans and Europeans all on the same side. It makes little sense, because these blocks do not have a common interest in conspiring against a superior standard. Tero

To: tradeyourstocks who wrote (6871)	8/4/2000 3:16:33 PM
From: EJhonsa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

GSM as the core? What the hell is the internet for then? All the major networking standards including GSM-MAP are being replaced with Internet standards. Are you saying that voice traffic will be handled over IP? If so, aren't there a lot of QoS issues to be worked out? Dropped calls are bad enough. Combining them with packet loss doesn't paint a good picture. But the use of IP is a natural progression for the data portions of these networks. It'll be interesting to see if Cisco will try to sneak into the general wireless infrastructure market through this back door. Given their recent purchase of IPMobile, and the way they want to go against Lucent and Nortel for the dollars of carriers on an end-to-end basis, it seems like a very good possibility. Eric

To: tradeyourstocks who wrote (6871)	8/5/2000 10:58:43 AM
From: Allen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

All the major networking standards including GSM-MAP are being replaced with Internet standards. Get a clue. You really don't understand the technology. GSM-MAP, like ANSI-41 (NA TDMA & CDMA) is an application protocol. The closest the IETF has is Mobile IP, and that doesn't quite address all the wireless issues. Currently both ANSI-41 and GSM-MAP use SCCP as their transport protocol. I know that ANSI-41 is being evolved to replace SCCP with IP and the same may be true for GSM-MAP. But neither ANSI-41 nor GSM-MAP are being replaced by Internet standards anytime soon.