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To: engineer who wrote (28743)	11/11/2002 11:15:36 AM
From: John Biddle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197029

There is no reason that a GSM1x phone could not support GSM also, since it contains all the major pieces to do GSM. I agree with this. Correct me if I'm wrong here, but technically, to the end users, there is no such thing as a GSM1x phone, meaning some special phone to use GSM1x. There are GSM phones which continue to be able to use the GSM network as always. There are 1x phones, which could use the presumably newly introduced 1x basestations. There might even be phones which have both GSM & 1x or GSM & GPRS & 1x and can use either technology. But there is nothing new on the consumer side. Since the Gartner Dataquest analysts are usually pretty sharp, I'm guessing (not having seen the original analysis he did) that he must be referring to contractual, or political issues, which could potentially be leveraged to ostracize the customers of the carrier who introduced 1x. This idea seems like something carriers might do, so my next question is "On what basis could they do it legally?"

To: engineer who wrote (28743)	11/12/2002 8:58:22 AM
From: propitious7	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 197029

GSM1X - Can carriers operate 1X + GSM in same band engineer in yr reply on GSM1X where you say a GSM carrier wd naturally preserve its GSM service for subs who do not buy new handset and for roaming while adding GSM1X, makes perfect sense. But do carriers (i) in Chine (ii) in US (iii) in Europe have sufficient bandwidth allocation to divide it allocating at least 1.25mhz x 2 to GSM1X and retaining GSM service on the rest? An article posted here a week/ ten days ago argued that GSM 1X could only be added to GSM service on a different band, e.g. 800mhz. So GSM1X would appeal only to carriers who were given access to 800mhz bandwidth in addition to their 900 or 1800 mhz band because they could not establish 1X on their GSM band w/o shutting down GSM service. What's the story??? propitious