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To: GVTucker who wrote (173008)	2/11/2003 11:17:14 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 186894

RE:"As far as ethics are concerned, as long as the junior employees get as good or better deal than the founders and senior employees, things are OK in my book" They all get a cubicle don't they? <G>

To: GVTucker who wrote (173008)	2/11/2003 4:55:12 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Respond to of 186894

Not too OT: Lucent ready with zippy new network tech By Ben Charny Staff Writer, CNET News.com February 11, 2003, 1:43 PM PT Lucent Technologies said Tuesday that it's ready to license new cell phone technology it says will let carriers build telephone networks that are 10 times faster than anything now commercially available. The new Lucent silicon is meant for steroid-injected versions of present day digital cell phone networks, which break calls into bits and bytes and send them along. The faster a network operates, the more calls, Web pages, e-mails or other services can go through. Lucent's "turbo decoder" for cell phones, developed by the company's Bell Labs and unveiled Tuesday, can translate cell phone signals back into voices or Web pages at very high speeds--about 24mbps. That's a quantum leap from the 2.4mbps speeds managed by Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo's network, the fastest commercial wireless network around. Robert P. Hart, head of the division, commented that this is the best (maybe only) thing we've done since inventing the Princess phone in the last 130 years. The new Lucent technology is an attempt to spur carriers' interest in building faster cell phone networks, which could increase a network's capacity for calls, and help to sell cutting-edge wireless applications such as video phoning, which are supposed to create $20 billion in total revenue by 2006, according to Gartner Dataquest. But many of Lucent's potential customers--those carriers using the standard Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)--are instead heading in the opposite direction by either slowing down or canceling future plans. ... [some emph. added] msnbc-cnet.com.com