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To: foundation who wrote (6639)	1/27/2001 10:54:05 PM
From: foundation	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 197245

<<"...Big players such as Vodafone, BT Cellnet and Orange hope GPRS (general packet radio switching) or "2.5 generation phones" will be on mass sale by Christmas, but Parthus chief executive Brian Long believes that target may have to be put back until the end of 2002...">> At what point will it make sense to Operators to blow off GPRS and go straight to UMTS - and reap the capacity benefits of all that costly spectrum? <<"..Industry sources say that trials on prototype third-generation or UMTS phones which will also be able to deliver live video footage to users' handsets are proving even more troublesome as engineers struggle to cram into handsets technology that meets power, size and cost requirements..Some of the models that we have seen hardly work," said an executive at one European network operator.">> Fortunately for Europe, Q and SpinCo will resolve pesky UMTS chipset issues that challenge simpler minds - quite probably with UMTS/GSM multimode chipsets by the time Parthus chief executive Brian Long projects production quantities of GPRS handsets... funny world

To: foundation who wrote (6639)	1/28/2001 12:25:21 PM
From: David E. Taylor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197245

Ben: Presumably the overheating and poor battery life of the GPRS handsets is the direct result of the fact that they achieve the higher data throughput not through any elegant technical means but by the "brute force" approach of utilizing multiple transmission channels - I seem to remember the number as four simultaneous channels. I wonder what that does for the concerns over health effects allegedly caused by cell phone handsets? I would think that the increased power consumption and multiple channel transmission would increase emissions correspondingly? David T.