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To: carranza2 who wrote (20778)	6/14/2002 12:04:59 PM
From: Dexter Lives On	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Costanza, Don't you have more important issues to deal with today? The GSM group has been wise to move slowly; they can learn from the many mistakes of the cdma crowd. Sprint itself is quite a lesson, don't you think!? Learning from others' mistakes has always been a good business plan... Rob

To: carranza2 who wrote (20778)	6/14/2002 1:18:47 PM
From: LarsA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

carranza, the problem Nokia experienced with AWE, as I read the FCC document, is not the GSM system as such but a piece of software that makes the system compatible with text telephones, TTY's, for hearing impaired users. The U.S. has a noble tradition of regulating its telephone systems to be accessible to people with hearing aids, TTYs and other such devices. I know from a friend that digital cell phones can interfere severely with hearing aids and that this has been a big issue in the US - CDMA, TDMA and GSM all have different properties here. Analog works fine. My guess is that this software has not been implemented anywhere else in the world and that unexpected interference occurred. Sad, costly but that's life when you install major, complicated stuff, under tight deadlines. Now try to find something else to gloat over.