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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (8876)	1/20/2001 4:48:54 PM
From: JohnG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

INDIA POTENTIAL HUGE!! India question.(See Quoted material below) It was stated that the India WLL operator in Deli and Mam??? now has 100,000 lines available in each city but that it can add lines 1 Laku (sp??)=100,000 at a time for a total of 300,000 in each city. There are two questions. 1) How much spectrum do these 300,000 lines in each city represent? The gvt announcement mentions dividing the 800/900 MHz total 20MHz of CDMA WLL reserved spectrum among 4 operators (with 5MHz each) and that 4 more operators (again with 5 MHz each) can be accomodated in the 20 MHz of CDMA WLL reserved spectrum in the 1800/1900 MHz band. Thus, I count the possibility of 8 WLL operators. The question is, whether the current operator can get the 300,000 lines into only 5 MHz of spectrum, thus raising the possibility of a future massive expansion of lines in the two cities. I think each of the two cities has some massive large population because the total population of India is estimated as 1.014 billion as of July 2000. 2) Is this same WLL spectrum (20MHz each in the 800/900 band and 1800/1900band) reserved for the entire country of India. If so, this raises the possibility of mobil WLL in many Indian cities. This is like Cricket in the Us which, within a city allows all the minutes you can eat for $29.95 and mentions the possibility of connecting the phone networks of Cricket cities togather at some point in the future. ""(ii) WLL frequency for Basic Service Operators should be same as already allotted to them in 800/ 900 MHz Band and 1700/ 1900 MHz Band in the NFAP-2000, and also as contained in the existing Basic Service License. (iii) So as to increase competition among BSOs in a service area, the CDMA Band of 20 MHz in the 800/ 900 MHz band should be distributed among four operators in each Basic Service Area i.e. 5 MHz each. This is necessary because the present proposal to allot 8 MHz to each operator will limit the competition to only 2 operators, i.e. to a Duopoly market structure which is not in the interest of consumers. (iv) Four more BSOs can be accommodated through Micro-Cellular technology in the 10 + 10 MHz spot reserved for WLL in 1800/ 1900 MHz Band.""

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (8876)	1/29/2001 4:29:24 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

re: SMS progress in the US It has taken Verizon the better part of a year and lots of bucks, but ... >> Verizon Wireless Launches Two-Way SMS 24 January 2001 Simon Buckingham Mobile Lifestreams Verizon Wireless, the largest US CDMA network operator, has launched two-way SMS in its Los Angeles market. The carrier plans to roll out two-way SMS to more than 100 markets over the coming months. Roll outs are gradual because software upgrades are needed in the mobile network switches to support SMS send functionality and Verizon uses several switch vendors given it has integrated several network acquisitions. Verizon Wireless was formed by the combination of the U.S. wireless businesses of Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp - now Verizon Communications - and Vodafone. (Mobile Lifestreams has consulted for GTE Wireless on CMDA SMS MO launch strategy and technology differentiation segmentation). This is significant news because it marks a commitment to two way text messaging by such a large CDMA network operator. When TDMA networks launched two-way SMS, it was smaller networks such as Midwest Wireless, Telecom New Zealand and Cellcom Israel that pioneered this service, only for AT&T Wireless the largest TDMA carrier in North America to follow. CDMA has followed a similar trend, with two-way SMS pioneered by Telstra Australia. Sprint PCS, another large North American network operator, seems to still be skeptical about SMS and is continuing to push its packet data services, HDML services and wireless instant messaging. This is a missed opportunity given the differentiation between these services and the reach that SMS has into certain segments that these services do not and the successful business models that exist with SMS that are not present with WAP/ HDML and other services. Interestingly, Verizon Wireless has recently told Nokia that it will not accept shipments of certain phone models from them until they support SMS MO in their CDMA handsets. Nokia has therefore been trying to implement this functionality. Terminals from CDMA handset vendors such as Audiovox and LG already support SMS Mobile Originate (Send) functionality. Congratulations to Verizon Wireless for realizing the power and potential for text messaging services. The support of such large network operators will drive substantial SMS volume growth in CDMA markets during 2001 and beyond. << - Eric -