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To: Mika Kukkanen who wrote (94611)	2/26/2001 7:34:56 AM
From: Keith Feral	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Mika: VOD may have sold the interests due to compeition restrictions, but what did they do with the proceeds. They paid for their 3G licenses in Britain and Germany. If the PCS network acheives 56K speeds in the field, that is a far cry better than GPRS's expected speed of 14 kbps. Hey, GPRS's potential speed is fine for SMS, Email, and other entry level information retrieval services. We've had it for 2 years in the US and it's time to move on to 3G - video, music, gps. GPRS will not deliver any significant new product offerings. Tell me what new software applications have been programmed on the GPRS chips. Nada, zip, zedro, none. 3G goes beyond issues of speed - you are supposed to integrate new software solutions. The chipsets for PCS's 3G chipsets in 2.5G spectrum (1.25 MHZ vs. 5MHZ) are advanced solutions for multimedia, bluetooth, gps, mpeg4, mp3 - yada, yada, yada. I could talk until I'm blue in the face about the evolution of new services for wireless data each year in the US. I think that European consumers should hav more to look forward to than SMS. As far as the gloom and doom rhetoric regarding the wCDMA camp, I'm not part of the boot licking group that denies the very existence of UMTS systems. I wish to hell that GPRS was not such a commercial disaster so that we could get to WCDMA sooner rather than later. However, given the complete lack of progress in Europe to develop this 2.5G upgrade (GPRS) in a 2.0G spectrum (GSM) and for 3G spectrum (UMTS), the door has been left wide open for new commercial solutions, i. e. 1XEV.