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To: Ibexx who wrote (92325)	1/23/2001 12:49:08 PM
From: JohnG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

GPRS delayed on Moscow. JohnG Thursday January 18, 6:36 am Eastern Time Moscow cellular operators delay GPRS launch MOSCOW, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Moscow cellular operators Vimpelcom (NYSE:VIP - news) and Mobile TeleSystems (NYSE:MBT - news) have pushed back the launch of their latest mobile Internet technology, GPRS, citing software crashes and a lack of handsets. MTS said last year it was aiming to launch GPRS high-speed data transmission services by December 2000 and Vimpelcom said it was aiming for January 2001. GPRS is a step on the way to third-generation cell service since it can be much faster than previous services, making mobile Internet and other data-heavy use more practical. Vimpelcom President Jo Lunder said in a statement this week the company would have GPRS on the market this quarter and expected ``tens of thousands'' of clients to use it by year-end. MTS spokeswoman Eva Prokofyeva said MTS had not set a date. Both Prokofyeva and Vimpelcom spokesman Mikhail Umarov said suppliers had failed to deliver enough GPRS phones to sell the service to the general public. They said their companies were also warned off by the partial crash of MTS' GSM network in December, which MTS blamed on a glitch in the GPRS software it had been testing. Andrei Bogdanov, a telecoms analyst at Alfa Bank, said both companies were too worried about image damage from such network crashes to launch while potential revenue from GPRS appears low. ``They are worried about the fall of network, which would be very negative for their image,'' Bogdanov said. ``Especially for Vimpelcom, which is gaining an image of being more accurate than MTS, which is now the market leader.'' ``It's more working for the future, for image, than for real cash they would start to make from this service,'' he added.

To: Ibexx who wrote (92325)	1/23/2001 12:52:19 PM
From: marginmike	Read Replies (8) \| Respond to of 152472

Nothing personal, but in my experience engineers tend to think in a scientific black or white type of way. There are many exceptions, and many of them reside on SI. However if you were educated your whole life that there was a reason for everything in science you would take that view to the greater world. People who study the Arts and liberall fields are tougt there are no bounderies, no answers just more question's.