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To: Clarksterh who wrote (13921)	7/17/2001 10:09:37 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 34857

Hi, Clark, good to hear from you!! 1. more accuracy when it works, when the sun shines in the desert. 2. what about privacy within 10meter when there anyway is no privacy within 100 meter??? (base station based localization) 3. GPS is not rapid, except in the desert and with the antenna in the right position, taped to the roof, in the right position. (OK, you wrote "as rapid as any system") 4. Don't you have steel enforced concrete floors and tin roofs in US, Deks top computers running at 1.6GHz?? (OK, you wrote "as any cell phone system", horizontally polarized and acessible through windows, max distance 3-6 km) Why a system which only works when it is not needed, outdoors in rural, empty, interference free enviroment, no possibility for the firebrigade to miss with 100-300 meter. And in tough urban, indoor, cellar and appartment, traffic situations it doesn't work anyway, except if everyone holds the handset high out through the window. In the same enviroment where base stations are dense and base stations and snaps and snips are needed anyway?? Why is all US non-GSM operators sitting tight on their waivers?? And the 40% 2W AMPS population out of luck anyway?? The only one with the plan for a solution is the GSM operators?? (I know, I know, AMPS is totally out of luck, just waiving, and so is US-TDMA, all those 30kHz bandwidths making delay measurements impossible) Ilmarinen As soon as anyone can show me that I can put the handset where Ruffian circulates and its GPS receiver still will work, in the backseat of a 2Mbps fast moving limo or exciting,exotic restaurant, I'll shut up, handset in my back pocket. Iridium and G* was supposed to work, with that big antenna, even under a tree???