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To: Rajala who wrote (116669)	4/15/2002 11:18:49 PM
From: Kayaker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Back in -95 in Katowice, Poland... Nice to reminisce about the old days, eh? Sounds like one last gasp from you before 1X spans North/South America and Asia. But don't fret. In a couple of years you'll catch up with WCDMA (if you ever get it working right) and you can go back to that strip joint and WOW everybody with your new Samsung phone. You'll even get to flip it over and proudly show everybody the tiny type that says "Digital by Qualcomm".

To: Rajala who wrote (116669)	4/15/2002 11:24:57 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 152472

must be idiot day............

To: Rajala who wrote (116669)	4/16/2002 2:43:02 PM
From: qveauriche	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Looking at it analytically, the only reason Europen wireless could offer this rather unimpressive feat ahead of the US is because of a regulatory ban on standards competition which we permit in the US, and as a result a US company developed the standard on which all 3g systems will be based; including UMTS. To say, at this point in time that Europe is superior to the US in wireless because of what it was able to do with 2g telephony 5 or so years ago is kinda like bragging about some company that made the best propellor planes at the dawn of the jet age. So yeah, with 2 nationwide rollouts of 1x this year,while GPRS and WCDMA fizzle and fume, I'd say the US is ahead of Europe in wireless, analytically speaking.