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To: mightylakers who wrote (92993)	1/30/2001 2:55:59 PM
From: David E. Taylor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

ML: Maybe a better analogy is something that was tried a few years ago to provide higher bandwidth wireline internet connections, where a number of companies offered modems and software packages that promised greater than the 56 Kbps max throughput then available. They achieved this by ganging together two or more conventional modem circuits together in a single box - trouble was you needed to install an additional phone line for each one. Theoretically you could get up to 112 Kpbs with dual phone lines, 158 Kbps with three lines, etc., though in practice the reported throughput achieved was much less. The telcos hated this because of the switched circuits it tied up, and there was the small matter of the cost of multiple phone lines, which were still cheaper than the only alternatives available at the time - ISDN service at 128 Kbps or expensive T-1 lines. The whole thing (ISDN as well) was rendered obsolete by DSL and cable modems. This use of "multiple time slots" on GSM/TDMA networks to increase throughput strikes me as a similar "brute force" approach with similar consequences - ties up network resources, uses more power, is unlikely to achieve the theoretical throughput, etc., and is likely to have just as short a life. David T.