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To: slacker711 who wrote (15634)	10/9/2001 12:57:26 PM
From: Keith Feral	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196710

Screen size doesn't matter. 3G is opening up a whole new market for wireless modems to laptops, handheld pc's, laptops, telematics, gps equipment, etc... that has nothing to do with voice communications. 3G represents the same freedom for data as voice. Yes, the wireless web will serve people through their cell phone. However, there is a growing wireless WAN for internet access that will be completely independent of our voice services. Companies like Airprime that sell wireless modems have nothing to do with voice - they offer national wireless DATA ONLY products that will require seperate cell phone or mobile IP addresses through Sprint PCS or Verizon.

To: slacker711 who wrote (15634)	10/10/2001 12:34:27 AM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196710

Another typical Motorola story.... timesofindia.com MTNL, Motorola sort out tech issue in WLL SANJAY ANAND TIMES NEWS NETWORK EW DELHI: What held back MTNL, the state-owned basic and cellphone service provider in Delhi and Mumbai, from going ahead in offering mobile wireless in local loop (M-WLL) services to customers in Delhi? According to MTNL officials, it was a technical problem and is being sorted out with its vendor Motorola, a US-based equipment and cellphone manufacturer. MTNL has been largely viewed as being reluctant in providing M-WLL service. MTNL officials disagreed with the view and maintained that they could not provide M-WLL aggressively because Motorola’s equipment was not loading to full capacity. ‘‘We had placed an order of 50,000 lines, but during the trials we realised that it would not load beyond 31,000 lines,’’ MTNL CMD Narinder Sharma told The Times of India. ‘‘Motorola has agreed to sort out the problem and it will be done within a few months,’’ said Sharma. Motorola’s country head Pramod Saxena agreed that his company has given an undertaking ‘‘to provide additional equipment to MTNL for meeting the peak capacity.’’ Saxena said, however, that within the existing equipment, up to 50,000 subscribers could be added. ‘‘The limitation could come only if all 50,000 subscribers use the network simultaneously at peak erlang capacity. The peak capacity of 50 m erlang (that MTNL has asked for M-WLL service) is unlikely to be reached for several months as is the experience with GSM (cellphone) networks, where the capacity has not even exceeded 25 m erlang,’’ he added.