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To: foundation who wrote (18639)	1/31/2002 6:47:32 AM
From: foundation	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196628

GPS-Enabled Cellular Phone Debuts (in Korea) By Kim Deok-hyun Staff Reporter KTF, a giant mobile phone carrier, announced yesterday it would introduce a new phone service that tells users where they are and when they should get there. KTF spokesman Lee Young-bae said that the GPS-enabled wireless phone is designed to support future location-based and emergency 119 services as they become available. The commercialization of the GPS-enabled phone came after that of the Sprint PCS in the U.S. and KDDI in Japan. Last October, Sprint PCS became the world's first wireless carrier to release the service, by meeting the Federal Communication Commission's deadline. Its archrival SK Telecom is now preparing to launch a test-run for the GPS- enabled phone before June this year. KTF will launch a commercial operation in Seoul and neighboring cities before expanding its service nationwide by the end of April. For the new GPS-enabled phone service, customers will pay a monthly basic fee of 17,000 won with call rates of 18 won per minute, KTF said. However, those who want to access the service should buy a new phone, which is available at around 200,000 won. Since its trial operation in December last year, KTF said it has secured more than 1,000 pre-registered customers for the new service. ÀÔ·Â½Ã°£ 2002/01/31 17:18 hankooki.com

To: foundation who wrote (18639)	1/31/2002 9:33:47 AM
From: Keith Feral	Respond to of 196628

Now it's time for the GSM operators to make the sensible decision - upgrade to WCMDA/1X aka CDMA2000 3xRTT with self (quasi) synchronized base stations. They could plan the networks without any modifications to existing 3GPP standards, according to Qualcomm's White Papers for Synchronization of Aysnchronous Base Stations in a WCDMA Network. Would it be possible for wireless companies to leave a single 1.25 MHZ carrier to asynchronous mode of transmission and upgrade the other 3 1.25 MHZ carriers to 3xRTT synchronous mode of transmission?

To: foundation who wrote (18639)	1/31/2002 6:54:06 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196628

Ben, same old story: P-----g <'Cell breathing' takes unexpectedly heavy toll on capacity in third-generation test project. Third-generation mobile data trials on the Isle of Man have hit a stumbling block that could seriously affect business use when the service goes live. Initial tests prove that 200-300Kbps data rates are possible and that 3G users can browse standard HTML web pages wirelessly at similar speeds to DSL. But fluctuations in data rates and signal range, known as 'cell breathing', will affect the rollout of any commercial services by undermining the service reliability that business depends on. "Obviously network capacity is a finite thing affected by the number of people using it," said Manx Telecom CEO Chris Small at a demonstration last week. "You have to price it to attract enough people to make it worthwhile, but not so many as to clog up the network."> Whoa!! This Chris Small guy must be some kind of registered marketing genius to understand such a thing. But the big test will be whether he can make the leap of intuition to prevent "Cell Suffocating" [they call it breathing], overloading and frustrated customers, by maintaining a constant load by instantaneous pricing displayed on the device so that people log on when the price is low and get something else to do when it's expensive and high value applications are being used. It can be done with an easy BREW application chatting to the basestations serving the subscriber at the time. Mqurice