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To: foundation who wrote (31669)	1/24/2003 1:25:08 PM
From: foundation	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197215

Trai to announce new phone tariffs on Saturday REUTERS [ FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2003 02:26:30 PM ] NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has said it will announce on Saturday a new inter-connect charge which has been at the centre of a row between fixed line firms and the mobile phone industry. "We will announce them (new tariffs) positively on Saturday. I believe it will be acceptable to all. The rates have almost been finalised," MS Verma, chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, told reporters on Friday. Trai will announce new tariffs for fixed-line phone users. The announcement comes after the government brokered a truce on Monday between warring cellular and fixed line phone firms offering the cheaper limited mobility services over access fee charges that cut off millions of subscribers. economictimes.indiatimes.com

To: foundation who wrote (31669)	1/24/2003 2:44:27 PM
From: rkral	Respond to of 197215

Ben, In your highlight, the author writes: "At year-end, only 1.4 percent of worldwide GSM customers used GPRS services, while CDMA 1x users accounted for 17 percent of CDMA subscriptions." Poor comparison by the author. While the numbers are probably correct, a logic-challenged reader might conclude 17% of CDMA customers are data users. I wonder what that number really is. Ron

To: foundation who wrote (31669)	1/24/2003 3:37:44 PM
From: pyslent	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197215

At year-end, only 1.4 percent of worldwide GSM customers used GPRS services, while CDMA 1x users accounted for 17 percent of CDMA subscriptions., from the GPRS article. I have a hard time accepting this comparison. Does this just mean that 17 percent of the CDMA user base has been converted to CDMA1x phones? As EricL is wont to say, his wife may be considered a 1X user, since she carries a verizon 1x voice phone. Here in america, I doubt if 17 percent of the 1X users have ever even touched the sprint WEB button on their new Vision phones. Conversely, most areas that have GSM have not even rolled out GPRS, so the comparison again fails. for an apples to apples comparison, i would like to know the percentage breakdown of 2.5G/3G users that avail themselves of data services between the two technologies. For instance, do are people who carry vision capable phones more likely to use data services than people who carry mMode capable phones? That is a very different question, but speaks more directly towards the issue of technology adoption. Pyslent