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To: engineer who wrote (86269)	11/5/2000 2:23:11 AM
From: tradeyourstocks	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

AT&T has 2 choices IMO. 1. Continue with their plans to upgrade with EDGE. 2. Switch to CDMA. Since they're actively converting San Diego GTE spectrum which they recently acquired from Verizon from CDMA to TDMA, I guess they're not planning on doing #2. Converting to GSM makes NO sense for the obvious reasons stated by many on this thread. I guess that leaves them with #1, in which case AT&T will die a slow and painful death waiting for EDGE to deliver 3G performance. MicroE

To: engineer who wrote (86269)	11/5/2000 10:07:46 AM
From: Jon Koplik	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Fascinating (I thought) NYT article on possible Parkinson's / organic pesticide link. Message 14729943 Jon.

To: engineer who wrote (86269)	11/5/2000 11:44:21 AM
From: limtex	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

eng - wasn't there the apparently well reasoned ( to us no-technically educated masses) reprot by teh chief technical officer of T only a few short weeks ago where he said he just didn't understand all the fuss and that T was going to be able to offer high data rate wireless services with a TDMA based system. Is it conceivable that a man holding that postion in T could say something with such vehemence if he didn't beleive it or have some very solid basis for doing so? We are sooner or later going to get near to the resloution of the technical aspects of these discussions. As I have said I think that the questioner inthe CC who referred to SPs being able to overcome technological inferiority by "marketing". Best regards, L