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To: Quincy who wrote (14958)	9/6/2001 4:56:20 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

The communicator is a fax machine too. Ilmarinen did not understand: -Contractors traded back down from the internet model because of the open lid requirement. ??? But yes, non-clamshell phones are very popular, the hinges and plastics don't break all the time, and that problematic flat cable snaking through that bending part does not get all those problems. But the communcator is not a phone, it is a terminal. Can even be a server.

To: Quincy who wrote (14958)	9/9/2001 8:43:13 AM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 34857

Quincy, << The primary business communications tool over here is the fax machine. >> Scratching my head on that one and wondering if we live and do business in the same country. <g> That was no doubt true in 1990 and perhaps till 1995. The primary business method of communication in the US has not been the fax "machine" for some time. The primary method of business communications is e-mail (with attachments) and server replication or interchange (Domino & Exchange servers). Soft copy has pretty universally replaced hard copy fax "machine" output (as opposed to digital fax services). I suspect that fax volume (expressed in unit pages) has probably decreased by 70% minimum in the last 5 years. In the GSM world, of course, data services like fax and SMS have proliferated in the mobile environment particularly since 1995 when phase 2 was introduced, and usage has increased exponentially since 1998 as data roaming started to become relatively ubiquitous at about the same time that Korea was introducing rudimentary data services using CDMA. - Eric -