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To: Cooters who wrote (94299)	2/23/2001 2:06:04 AM
From: limtex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Coots A Qualcomm spokesperson said that mobile phone operators in Korea, Japan and the United States are preparing 3G systems on the cdma2000 standard which should be commercially ready later this year. That is IT. The be all and end all. The Euros have been going around telling euro analysts that Europe is way ahead of the US in mobile telephony. They constantly repeat this. They may have been right a few yaers ago but that has not been right recently. cdma one already is data capable and is now at 14.4Kbps whereas the best GSM can do is 9.6Kbps. GPRS, the supposed GSM answer to 1X suffers from the condition that it doesn't really work and uses up its batteries very quickly plus to work in fast data mode it has to use more than one channel. The Euro analysts will read all this and it will make them think. they have a real problem on their hands with the balance sheets of BT and FT and DT. This is serious debt and now the Euro analysts will be able to see the costs of the decsion to support NOK at the expense of the whole EU's mobile data service. They will be able to see what is happening in the US, Japan, Korea and elsewhere. They will go to the US and be able to see Americans surfing the web in the airports and in restuarants and offices. They won't be able to do it because they will be roaming on domestic US GSM networks at 9.6Kbps. They will be intrigued as to why they can not do this!! That is the best thing about all this publicity. It is about ot get aired in Britain. The financial journalists will pick up on it because of the balance sheet problems at BT, DT and FT. Best regards, L