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To: 49thMIMOMander who wrote (8804)	1/12/2001 6:06:28 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

<< Or did you mean the problems of keeping the old analog AMPS up and running in Verizones network?? (must be a lot of unproductive pain) >> Sure it is a pain. It is the foundation of the Americas wireless system however. Verizon is and has been unequaled in US coverage. They are in process of spending big bucks to combine 3 whole networks and pieces of 2 others. We (US) entered the last decade with a single standard and great coverage. Opposite of Europe. TDMA and CDMA started as ANSI-41 overlays (opposite of GSM). GSM did not invent roaming. The RBOCs did. This is a huge and spread out nation. Population densities very different than Europe. Much more wide open stuff. But verizon delivers coverage unrivaled even in Europe, or at least rivaling Europe. Yes we still rely on AMPS and will till 2005, with remnants to the end of the decade. - Eric -

To: 49thMIMOMander who wrote (8804)	1/13/2001 4:07:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 34857

SMS will get even bigger when there is voice-to-text input. Multiple presses of a key to get a single letter is absurd. Using short forms such as u, instead of you, is not the ideal way to get good communications, though SMS is a fun, fashionable, game to play for a while. Wayward youth are going totally berserk with it. A wayward youth we know and his family won a trip around the South Pacific in a small Lear Jet as a prize in a Vodafone SMS lucky draw. They had sent hundreds of messages. I saw one of their accounts and there were about 5 pages of calls made, the vast majority being SMS. Everywhere you look people are peering at their phones, SMSing away, flat out. My technologically Luddite spouse is using SMS too! Having refused to accept [5 years ago] that cellphones have any place in life outside yuppiedom and self-important poseur circles, she is now a cellphone-wielding SMS enthusiast [though of course in decile 1 compared with the decile 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 wayward youth SMS brigade who make up 80% of the SMS messaging tribe. This is mania writ large. This is very good news for wireless investors, especially in Nokia and QUALCOMM, because these crazed youths will be spending the next ten years working to pay for upgrading on at least an annual basis, if not more often. A 16 year old wayward youth in this family, who earns her own money, has owned 4 cellphones, 3 this year; an Alcatel, a Nokia, a Sagem and now a Nokia again [a US$250 Nokia with three covers]. Cellphones are like the Pied Piper of Hamlin, playing his magical tune and all the children follow: hameln.de We have plunged beyond the event horizon and are being sucked into the maw of wireless Internet. Our children are being lured away to disappear into the very heart of cyberspace: <... On the 26th of June in that year he returned, this time dressed as a huntsman, with a grim visage, a wondrous red hat. While the townsfolk were assembled in the church, he again sounded his pipe in the streets. But it was not rats and mice who came out this time, but the children! A great many boys and girls older than four came running and were led through the Ostertor gate into the very heart of a hill where they all disappeared. Only two children returned because they could not keep up: one was blind and could not show where the others had gone, the other dumb and not able to tell the secret. A last little boy had come back to fetch his coat and so escaped the calamity.> This is good. Mqurice