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To: Mark Fleming who wrote (103139)	8/22/2001 12:20:06 PM
From: Cooters	Respond to of 152472

Mark, I think the mobile phone industry now is more like where the PC industry was when the processors running below 100 Mhz. I tend to view the analogy at an even earlier point in time for the PC, 386/486 timeframe in chip architecture and maybe even back to DOS/Windows 3.x for the OS. Early! Some of the problems with Korea as a showcase for 1x are: - Very high penetration rate for broadband internet connections, the highest in the world I think. - Koreans are not mass transit commuters like you find in Japan and Europe. - I'm not aware of a big domestic software industry to quickly crank out apps, like I expect in the US. I would think Japan or the US will provide the test for high-speed wireless data. KDDI remains a focal point. Cooters