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To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (110542)	1/9/2002 10:35:56 AM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

but what about the network effects for data uses? i-mode seems to have been a beneficiary... It depends on the implementation by the carrier. There is nothing stopping SMS or MMS being transmitted from a GSM network to a CDMA network. The CDMA network just needs to implement the correct standards (and in the case of MMS actually create the CDMA version of the standard). I-mode is a different case since it is a closed system. You need an i-mode phone to access those sites. BREW will also be more of a closed system. It seems to me that much of the GSM world is going to push Java for their wireless applications. This should be usable across any network... Slacker