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To: slacker711 who wrote (90261)	12/15/2000 10:22:14 AM
From: Mika Kukkanen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

Slacker, Interesting points. The position on what a license actually states is today unclear. Each country is different. In many cases it was just the spectrum itself, with guaranteed coverage for 3G services. Some reporting mentions UMTS license and in most cases this is untrue. A clarification of what the license actually states is being sort now. GSM was rolled out comparatively slowly. As for roaming, I didn't indicate roaming on another operator's network. The roaming would be on an operator's own network (only new operators will have trouble). I saw that about cost not being as much as originally thought. I would point out that they mention 3G and not a technology. EDGE qualifies as 3G. AT&T are going GSM as the data route. GPRS/GSM is fundamental for EDGE - EDGE basically only describes the frequency modulation to boost data rates. More on this later, I think we'll be hearing much more about this in the near future. M