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To: Eric L who wrote (12768)	6/19/2001 10:16:01 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

We all know why Nextel boasts higher APRUs. Corporate customers, naturally. I fully understand the corporate/business angle. To pimp HSCSD as a "cure" for GPRS is ludicrous, however. I doubt that it will ever be the mass-market tool which GPRS was designed to be. Simply too expensive. Can you imagine the bill a teenager might get for using three time slots at the same time for downloading a song or watching a video? What about the lack of error correction? How will the high-paying corporate customer feel when an error flips him back to GSM in the middle of an important business matter? As far as I know, error correction has not yet been incorporated into HSCSD. What about prime time congestion? The number of HSCSD users will clearly congest a network. Imagine all those time slots being used by corporate customers while Nigel, Francois, Inge and Gerhardt are trying to chat about dinner plans. I don't buy the business case.