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To: Eric L who wrote (7020)	8/29/2000 10:32:05 AM
From: gdichaz	Respond to of 34857

Eric L: Appreciate your full and comprehensive reply to my request to the "other" Eric. To me, you are Eric (even if with an "L"). On timing, not to put too much of a pun to it, but time will tell. One point however seems quite clear, the use of current spectrum for rapid data will preceed that of new spectrum, with the possible exception of DoCoMo's limited operation of a 1999 variety of CDMA of some sort in Japan next spring. Still seems to me, the real action for data for the next 2 or 3 years will be in current spectrum. The use of new spectrum seems to be slip, sliding away as the old song went. And to call GPRS at 20 kbps "rapid" is not just a joke, it is pitiful; and even when the kinks are ironed out, it is absolutely not even close to what 1xEV (or some HDR variety) should be able to carry. It will test GSM for packet as opposed to circuit but that is about all it does. My basic skepticism is still that the assumption that the GSM base will go ipso facto for "WCDMA" in anthing like the current UMTS iteration is just that - an assumption. And to base action or policy on that assumption seems premature for sure. As always, best to you. Chaz