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To: Ihubber who wrote (59400)	1/25/2005 5:18:28 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Hubby, you are picking the eyes out of it. Sure there are some places where backhaul is problematic. Mostly people are downloading, so it's the forward link where speed really matters [forward link being delivery from the base station to the subscriber for those not up with the jargon they use]. You might not see benefit to subscribers from 1xEV-DO compared with W-CDMA but if you go to Japan, or click to it, you'll see that Au aka KDDI with their 1xEV-DO service have trounced D'oh!CoMo which was first out of the gates, but stumbled and struggled to get W-CDMA operating well enough to sell. Around the world, W-CDMA has struggled whereas 1xEV-DO works [though Monet's early service crashed in financial ruin]. In Korea, 1xEV-DO is big time and is showing the world how to do data, with profits to match. Verizon is the same dopey company that helped wreck Globalstar, so I'm not surprised if what they do is not much use. <Maximum possible speed varies. It declines with distance from cell site and is limited to 1.54 Mbps at certain cell sites with backhaul limitations. Number of users on the Verizon Wireless BroadbandAccess network may also affect maximum possible speed. Average upload speeds expected to be between 40-60 Kbps. > Mqurice

To: Ihubber who wrote (59400)	1/25/2005 6:02:23 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Hubby, a customer review of the XV6600 running 1xEV-DO. The customer experience is what matters: Message 20982838 <Verizon's EV-DO + Audiovox XV6600 = Mobile Nirvana # I've been using the XV6600 from Verizon for just a few days and it's pretty amazing. The phone is based on the HTC Blue Angel reference design and is a pretty nice PocketPC with Bluetooth and a slide out keyboard. What separates this phone from the competition is that it uses Verizon's EV-DO network which means high speed access. REALLY high speed access. Downloading email is swift, even when loaded with attachments. UsingOrb Networks on this is a delight, the video is crisp and clear and runs flawlessly. Music streams at high quality and the fast connection means you're not bogged down by the web UI. Everyone who I showed this to was just blown away by both the speed and quality. For fun, I managed to pair it to my laptop via Bluetooth. Speeds were limited to around 200k or so, more a limitation of Bluetooth connection speeds than anything else. Still it was enough to check email and stream video at a nice clip. Only issue so far is battery life just isn't good enough because unlike other mobile devices, you actually want to use this on a regular basis. I'll be posting more about this going forward. It's going to be hard to go back to using GPRS after this. > That looks like a happy customer to me. I'm planning on getting one of those from Telecom New Zealand this year. Mqurice PS: And another. It looks like a trend. Message 20983033 All the graphs on QUALCOMM's annual report were looking good. Message 20983033