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To: Kent Rattey who wrote (9082)	1/31/2001 7:24:40 AM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

``Anyone who thinks GPRS is going to offer services at 120 kilobits per second is on crack,'' says one London-based analyst." No, he just hasn't understood GPRS nor that he probably has five fingers on one hand and one of them probably is a thumb, nothing like crack is needed, much simpler. And specifically he hasn't bothered to read about 2-1,3-1 and 4-1 GPRS classes for allocating rx-tx-time slots, like most other with interest in telecommunication did long time ago and even used fingers to be sure to do the simple math correctly. But what one can be really sure of is that understanding the factor of channel coding at different rates is much too much for some soap opera script writers, wherever they keep their thumb, hopefully safe in the nose. In a similar way litigation against a transmitter which is the same as every non-GPRS GSM phone is kind of missing a thumb or two. The multi slot receiver is surely a difficult thing to understand, although using the word _powerful_ helps to keep up the story line one was contracted to produce. Ilmarinen. P.S. Although years of "Wap Wednesday" CNBC Europe still hasn't learned the basics of even using the naviroller although I'm sure they try very hard, that thumb thing?? At the moment Analyst Adrian awkwardly tries to remove both I-Mode, "present" WAP and Nokia picture SMS messages from his nose to get room for WAP2.0. (Mr Bean could certainly offer some help and relief)

To: Kent Rattey who wrote (9082)	1/31/2001 9:33:57 AM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

re: A REAL aggressive Handset Forecast >> One Billion Cellular Handsets Are To Be Shipped Yearly By 2004 GSMBOX January 31, 2000 According to a market report carried out by Intex Management Services (IMS), the wireless communication market specialist, the number of cellular handsets shipped in a year is expected to exceed the I billion mark in 2004 and 1.34 billion in 2006 just in comparison to an estimated market of 288 million terminal shipments in 1999. In 2006 it is forecast that there will be 1.79 billion users of cellular services worldwide. Alex Green, a senior analyst for IMS and one of the report's authors, says that by 2006, increases in users in developed countries is forecast to have started to peak. However, take up of cellular in less-developed countries, such as China, and regular handset replacements by users worldwide will mean that the market for cellular terminals will continue to experience significant growth. Over the period from 1999 to 2006 there will be a considerable change in the make-up of the types of cellular handsets that are sold. Approximately 95 percent of terminals shipped in 1999 complied to second-generation (2G) standards with the rest being similar and it is estimated that 56 percent of handsets shipped will comply with 2.5G or third-generation (3G) standards. << - Eric -