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To: S100 who wrote (10547)	4/13/2001 4:38:53 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Sonera is tough on closing this one wired telephone booth where 5 calls were made last year. Additionally they are busy removing the telephone poles and offering GSM phones for the cost of wired phones in the same very sparsely populated regions. On the other hand they offer ADSL and DSL over larger and larger parts of their tested network and the smaller parties in the finnish congress is getting tired of trying to spin the issue. And nobody dreams of getting WCDMA for 99.98% of the population as was stipulated in the Swedish beauty contest, whatever the swedes had in mind?? The domestic WLAN company is doing great where there are only a few users, but not so great where the number of users would bring in some profit. But we trust them to set up more accurately directed antennas in the future, a reality check on that too. It is also sad that QCOM did not get the guardbands filtered right, I would have enjoyed testing their network at 2.4Mbps. Ilmarinen. P.S. ;-)

To: S100 who wrote (10547)	4/13/2001 6:10:32 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

<< Any ideas on why someone would have a new TDMA/AMPS phone? >> Tero would tell us that since IS-136 was the fastest growing technology in the world last year it makes good sense for a manufacturer whose digital technology specialties market share declined last year. << Nokia's Nowak said the glitch is "not a big deal" and part of the "normal course of business". >> Yeah, right. I hope Jorma had someone take Keith Nowak out, hang him upside down by his heels, and leave him swinging in the breeze. I see that article is dated 4-04-01. Maybe Keith is choosing his phrases with a bit more forethought by now. << Are these the neat red ones we see in pictures of Old England? >> My favorite story on the much beleaguered BT pay phone booth appeared in the Register a few months back: >> BT Urges UK Not To Use Mobiles BT has launched an ad campaign slagging off mobile phones and suggesting that the Great British Public goes back to using pay phones. No, honestly, it has. Unsurprisingly, BT informs those that ask that the rocketing use of mobiles has slashed income from public call boxes. "Slashed" is the right word because we suspect one reason people prefer using a mobile is that they don't need to stand in a puddle of urine while making calls. Mobiles being mobile is also an advantage. "Mobile phones may be getting lighter, but they can still be heavy on the pocket." So say the new ads. And they're right. Perhaps this is why BT doubled the minimum charge of public call boxes a couple of months ago from 10p to 20p - to try to keep it in line with mobiles. We can see the campaign being a great success. It will only be a matter of weeks before people decide that rather than check on their friend's whereabouts while sitting in the pub, they will down their pint, go outside, walk up and down various roads til they find a phone box. Then they'll walk up and down until they find one that works. Then they'll lose 30p because they only have a 50p in their pocket and call their mate on his mobile, now sitting in the pub. Folk have already pointed out the possible conflict of interests here. What with BT also owning the number two UK mobile company, BT Cellnet. But then as anyone that knows BT will tell you, the different elements of the company have never had any effect on each other, so why should they now? We're all for anti-mobile advertising. In fact, the sooner BT launches a "Health warning: Mobiles cause brain tumours" ad, the better. Regarding this, the latest study into mobiles and cancer (Germany) says - yes, they do. So that means the next one has to be a "no". << JohnG will like that last sentence. - Eric -