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To: Eric L who wrote (118598)	5/10/2002 2:33:43 PM
From: Clarksterh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Eric - I buy that. It would depend on the gen and rev of basestation. Same will essentially apply to EDGE. At some point in time all GPRS transceivers from Nokia and Ericsson, and probably Siemens, Nortel, and Motorola, will be EDGE capable. Well, I agree that GSM basestations sold in the last year or so may well all be EDGE compatible. But those sold more than two years ago (i.e. the vast vast majority of GSM basestations) probably are not. But networking equipment typically is much more flexible (e.g. all of those firmware updates available in your modem) so my suspicion is that even 7 or 8 year old GSM basestations (i.e. probably a majority of GSM basestations) can be upgraded to GPRS via software with no hardware. BTW - Obviously the reason this matters is that it strongly effects the price of migration. Updating software is always much cheaper than updating hardware. Hence my interest. Clark