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To: waitwatchwander who wrote (120647)	6/18/2002 1:14:56 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

The elephant in the Cabals' various boardrooms and labs no one appears to be discussing is the diminution is speed EDGE experiences when the user is away from the base station. A lot more infra is going to be needed to get EDGE to maintain decent speeds. Unless a city gets plastered with infra and sub-cells, EDGE is likely to be a bust. The same is true of WCDMA. The FOMA experience is telling. Please note the pedigrees of the authors and the author of the foreword. Not so much what is said, but who is saying it. I probably am being a bit harsh, but the wireless world is full of hyperbole. I'm from Missouri when it comes to technologies that have a spotted background. At the end of the day, it is the facts on the ground that count. So far, those facts have suggested that EDGE is a non-starter because no one is adopting it in any significant manner. No European company has signed an EDGE contract, though they are all "interested". Why? Who knows, but I would not be surprised if the additional infra expense is something that has perhaps shied them away. Burn me once, shame on you, burn me twice, shame on me. We'll see.