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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (5342)	10/4/2002 5:52:52 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12231

<font color=red> RoamAD 80211.b network Telecom New Zealand was yesterday selling 1xRTT PCMCIA Gtran cards for NZ$1300 [US$600]. I bought TWO 802.11b cards for only NZ$220 = US$100 and the RoamAD network goes a lot faster [at present the handbrake is off so I'm getting swanky speeds, but RoamAD's guaranteed rate of 350kbps, [maybe it was 330 kbps], is still way faster than Telecom's slow-poke 60 kbps normal speed [with top speed of 140 kbps or whatever it is]. Telecom's 'Shed' is open today down at the Viaduct Basin so I'll go and poke around to see what the dopey CDMA competition is doing. I feel sorry for Vodafone [their advertising is looking pathetic these days, with naked guys running around footy fields with the Vodafone logo and PXT scrawled on and dancing workers on TV]. I suppose Vodafone will sell up in Australasia and head home. Telecom does actually call their Viaduct Basin building The Shed. Which is typical Kiwi lingo. It's 100 metres x 30 metres with a tubular steel frame and transparent plastic sides [in some sections]. So it's a good-sized 'shed'. Meanwhile, it's nice to see QUALCOMM's share price hold up while all around is mayhem. CDMA sales are taking off at just the right time [though 3 years earlier would have been good too]. Mqurice