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To: Eric L who wrote (19739)	4/21/2002 7:03:04 PM
From: kech	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

Won't the AMR and frequency hopping take a year or two to have any effect on capacity? Aren't the gains from AMR dependent on new handset deployment? So as GPRS handsets are deployed they use up 4x capacity (4 channels) (when used) but save 80% of capacity from the AMR. Net net this is still sucking up capacity. Only if a lot of other handsets not using GPRS are sold with AMR would their be any savings.

To: Eric L who wrote (19739)	4/24/2002 6:21:26 PM
From: JScurci	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 34857

Just Curious. How in brief would you explain the following: 1) The penetration of approx 18% of global subscibers in scarcely 6-7 years time against an entrenched technology that had an inherent cost advantage (large economies of scale) and regulatory protection (EU wide mandatory use of GSM). 2) Abysmally slow adoption of GPRS and GPRS services. 3)Your definition of backward compatibilty when adoption of WCDMA by definition involves a brand new air interface. or alternatively,- just how much of that legacy GSM system (rf equipment, etc. ) gets junked. 4) poor showing of FOMA - both in absolute terms and in terms of its"performance/compatibilty " of its predecessor platform. 5) why simply there is likely to be "tens of millions" of 1xrtt/CDMA200 users before WCDMA is even out of the gates. thanks in advance, Q Moonie