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To: Uncle Frank who wrote (63780)	12/17/2001 3:04:33 PM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Hmmm... what is gmm, edge and wcdma? I don't think I've heard about this in European telecommunications. In Europe, the migration path has been NMT450 -> NMT900 -> GSM 900 -> GSM 1800 -> GPRS -> UMTS. In the early phases, a lot of proprietary or bad standards were present, but everybody uses GSM 900/1800 now and even the distinction between GSM and other systems have gone away since nobody uses non-GSM phones. And this is exactly where the problem comes in - only few people actually know about GPRS, even today when there are several handsets out there. The focus has shifted away from wireless protocols to applications. If GPRS doesn't feature a killer application soon, it won't succeed before UMTS is there, and then UMTS needs a killer application. And sending SMS via UMTS is definitely not a killer app, and bandwidth hungry stuff like video or radio isn't either.