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To: Keith Feral who wrote (19140)	3/26/2002 11:18:14 AM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 34857

My point was mainly that the GSM standard now includes GPRS, but not yet as a defacto obligatory part, like SMS, etc,etc improvements that has been made to GSM. The GPRS functions are anyway just a matter of software for the handset, as the DSP+ARM horsepower now comes for free, plus more memory for the GPRS based services. Furthermore GPRS can be roughly defined in three versions, the "legacy" which Motorola tried to be first with, the present one with the simpler, present synch,etc channel, and "the next one", the "real" GRPS, for heavy data use, with dynamic allocation of channels,etc,etc,etc. Yes, 1X has the dilemma that almost all handsets has to be switched 1X to achieve any gains, tough for the operators when combined with the "free phones" strategy. And obviously, the GPRS network is the foundation for both GPRS, UMTS and also GSM1X.