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To: tcd who wrote (14940)	9/6/2001 11:16:42 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Your initial point is a good one. We'll see in 2005 what really happens. In the meantime, have you noticed Vodafone's move to roll out "3G" at 64 kbps in 2002? Better service than that already exists in Korea! The Euros may be building a bridge, but it seems to me that the US and Asia have got the bridges built and are now looking at airports while the Euros are still trying to figure out whether the bridge will be cantilever or suspension.

To: tcd who wrote (14940)	9/6/2001 11:26:46 AM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 34857

A post from the Q Moderated thread. The world's biggest mobile phone operator has decided to run its European third-generation (3G) networks at 64 kilobytes a second (kb/s) when its launches the new mobile Internet service from 2002, the source told Reuters. 2002???. It will be 2002 before GPRS is ready for prime time. So they are spending money on puny GPRS at the sametime they will be upgrading and spending money on a reduced 3G system. Notice how the 3G system has not been named. Why would they spend money on two systems almost at the same time and wind up with a system that is less then a 1X system they can get right now. Amazingly stupid or there is more news to come!