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To: Dexter Lives On who wrote (6043)	2/20/2001 8:04:35 AM
From: JAPG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16863

For those of you that subscribe to the WSJ, there are two interesting articles today: Mobile Telecom Firms Question Benefits, Price of 3G Technology Some excerpts: Already France's third-largest operator with five million subscribers, Bouygues now believes that for most mobile services, pumped-up versions of today's second-generation systems -- which can be rolled out for a fraction of 3G's cost -- are more than adequate. Third-generation technology, says company Chairman Martin Bouygues, "is no longer indispensable for mobile multimedia applications" ranging from live video to wireless Internet access interactive.wsj.com Looking Ahead, Researchers Contemplate '4G' Technology some excerpts: "There is an irony here," says Mr. Makitalo(Telia Mobile's research director). "4G comes first, 3G comes second." But Mr. Eriksson doesn't agree with the usage of "4G" for such a mixture of technologies. "They're talking about the evolution of 3G," he says. "That's not really 4G." interactive.wsj.com Take care JAPG