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To: puzzlecraft who wrote (95324)	3/7/2001 7:15:37 AM
From: Webster	Respond to of 152472

Puzzlecraft regarding your comments that..."Perhaps IJ was talking in terms of future growth when GSM evolves to WCDMA in the 5Mz bandwidths"??? Although GSM may have growth 13.6% for the last three months. I don't think anyone who is talking about cdma and the benefits of wireless internet access has a time horizon of 3 months. As for GSM evolving to w-cdma, there isn't any evolution here. GSM evolution stops at GPRS. About the only thing that GSM can evolve to is using the same poles for antennas. The only evolution which takes place is for current cdmaone users who can evolve to 1X and 1Xev with minimal card updates, even the phones have pin compatible asics for 1X. GSM could evolve to 1X in their current spectrum which could provide more capacity and 307kb of wireless internet access. More importantly it is available today. A couple of Euro problems is that it allows existing GSM operators to have a lower cost faster time to market than the new spectrum owners. New spectrum operators could adopt cdma2000 and 1X, which is here today and commercialized. I don't doubt that GSM will be around for the next ten years. Rotary phones and record players are still in use. But I don't expect the rotary phone or GSM to provide the evolutionary path to wireless internet access. Thanks Web.