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To: Tito L. Nisperos Jr. who wrote (10391)	6/12/2002 6:32:08 PM
From: w0z	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10921

I missed this in Jerome's previous post: “Heck a good part of the world does not have a cell phone network. Try Africa, rural Russia, China, India, South America The Philippines, Indonesia, large parts of the Middle East and so forth.” This is totally wrong. Many of these countries are huge cell phone users (China, India and South America). For example: cellular.co.za India's fast-growing mobile phone industry kept up its pace of heady growth in January with subscriber base jumping nearly 75 percent over the same month last year, data released by an industry body showed. Figures from the Cellular Operators Association of India showed that the industry had 5.725 million subscribers, up from 3.27 million at the end of January 2001 and 5.48 million subscribers at the end of 2001. Furthermore, many underdeveloped countries see cellular as a better alternative to providing phone service than land lines since cellular sites can be put up much more quickly than stringing wires. BTW, here's an article about using wireless for 2.4 Mb/s data in Korea: Message 17595286

To: Tito L. Nisperos Jr. who wrote (10391)	6/12/2002 9:21:49 PM
From: Jerome	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10921

Tito...no offense to the 7000 island inhabitants of the Philippines. My point should have been that the inhabitants of rural areas of the countries I mentioned do not have the income or infrastructure to support a profitable cell phone industry. With an income of less than $2000.00 a year rural citizens of any country have no need of cell phones or computers. Cell phones are over rated...When I lived in Africa in the congo... (no electricity...no telephone) some one 50 to 80 miles away would be killed (or murdered) and everyone in my village would know about it with an hour. They did use some drums (The ultimate broadband) to relay messages and the neat part was everyone knew the the news that cared to listen. Short wave radios are preferred because using them is free. Tito...are short wave radios used in very rural areas of the Philippines? I also did see a lot of short wave radios used in the jungle areas of S. America. JMO....Jerome