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To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (9310)	3/30/2001 10:34:28 AM
From: engineer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 197214

Art, seriously, stick to finance stuff. Your way far off..... In regular voice CDMA, the transmission is on all the time while a caller is in a voice call. This is known as circuit switched, which means you switch on a circuit and use it until you get done with it. All of CDMa voice is like that, and all of the GSM, TDMA voice is like that. So is you regular wired phone. When we get to packet data, then we can esatblish a virtual circuit, so GPRS and IS-99A in CDMA allow this. Last year when Sprint and VZ annouced data, they put this in place with a technology called Quick Net Connect. The "always on" data feature is already here in a limited fashion. It will be the std operating mode for the 1x/hdr systems from now on. Always on means that your data phone will register in the base station as it handoffs and it will esatablish a virtual connection. The connection is only used (or actively consuming a call channel) when data is sent or recieved, thus the system can establish hundres of connections and only have one or two in use at a single time. Now let me attempt to explain a bull straddle for maximum downside protection.........