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To: Dennis Roth who wrote (97041)	4/6/2001 11:04:05 AM
From: Rajala	Respond to of 152472

>Other countries, especially Japan and parts of >Northern Europe currently are ahead of the United >States in adoption and implementation of wireless >communication, but Cooper insisted this is a >short-term situation. What a load of rubbish is this. Parts of Northern Europe are currently ahead of US? The reality is that already in 1996 the level of mobile telecom in Europe was much higher than the US today. And this is not true only in "parts of Northern Europe" but also in southern parts and even in eastern ex-communist countries. In 1996. In those days I travelled a lot in euroland and I can say that in any terms of quality it was superior what is going on in the States today. Be it roaming, coverage, dropped calls, congestion or voice quality everything was already then hunky dory. In Belgium, Hungary, France, Spain, in those days it was kind of cool to pull out to a road side café in Katowiche in Poland, order a coffee and download the mails to a laptop. Also worked with the women if you know what I mean. Data was slow but flowed bomb proof everywhere. And at the end of the day 9.6 kbs was ok. True, downloading a large >1MB attachment required an order of Pilsner Urquell (lack of which is one of the most serious shortcomings of US mobile data), but my average size of an e-mail without attachment was 2.2 KB – working with these the speed was not an issue at all. Even today, can I throw a laptop and a mobile on the back of my Ford Pinto and be connected in every bar and dubious dance hall in the States? Not to mention the Urquell. - rajala