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To: Quincy who wrote (8580)	2/17/1998 1:51:00 AM
From: JPM	Respond to of 152472

Does anyone know a web site where I can chart a stock and also get MACD lines for it? Thanks, Jp

To: Quincy who wrote (8580)	2/17/1998 8:51:00 AM
From: Raymond	Respond to of 152472

Quincy "Where is GSM concentrated"? All European countries has 2 to 3 countrywide operators.Asia has GSM more or less in every country.The only countries in Asia of significance that don't have GSM is Korea,there GSM is barred out by the government and Japan is without GSM because they choose to develop their own standard PDC. Australia has 2-3 countrywide networks.In US there are GSM operators covering most of the continent.The only black spot is Latin-America but the first inroad was Chile that signed a contract last year for a nationwide network. Advantages with MAP? GSM was specifically developed to enable roaming between countries.You can roam more or less all over the world without having to think about how your subscriberservices will work.It was also designed to enable Data-applications.There are faultcorrecting protocols that makes a more secure connection.This was the reason Intel gave why they choose to cooperate with the GSM-manufacturers to develop better dataservices.But if you are Jim Smith in Idaho who just uses his phone to call from A to B and doesn't plan to use his phone in other countrys their is no difference.The problem with dropped calls is normally a Airinterface problem and not a IS-41 or MAP problem. Economics with high speed data? I don't know .I think the technology freaks in Japan and in Silicon Valley might be interested.You can still make normal voice calls in a WCDMA network.So if a operator wants to have a new network he might choose the Rolls Royce(WCDMA) instead of a Fiat if the cost is about the same.The operators probably don't know what the interest in this new services will be and everyone wants to be "High Tech". Isn't that what everyone here is preaching.Forget the ancient soon to be dead technology GSM and choose IS-95.The QCOM people has probably won some customers especially in US arguing like that. Smart card fails? I don't know what this story is coming from.I know a lot of GSM-users and that is not the thing that breaks in a phone.Normally it is the plastic cover that is over the buttons.SIM-cards is one either advantage with GSM.Today they have the feature of loading the SIM with new markers.People can call as long as you have markers on your SIM.It is very popular in many countries where people don't pay their bills.It is also implemented by US GSM -operators.This is just the first step.In the future you should be able to use it for a lot of features. Gregg Of course I don't think that companies shouldn't be rewarded for it inventions.But I don't think that one company should be able to blackmail all the others to pay to much for it.A reasonable fee should be OK.If there is thousands of patents involved and one company own a few.Should this company take all the money. QCOM was the first company comercializing CDMA and therefor had to solve a lot of problem.One of this things mentioned on this thread is the mobile power regulation.The solution for this problem is a smart one.But it's hardly a nobelprizewinner that was needed to come up with the solution.It's a simple one because it is probably not possible to do it in a much different way.But now QCOM has the patent because they were first. QDOG. I haven't said that TDMA is better than CDMA.I have just said that GSM is a better networkstandard than what IS-95 is built on.By the way Packet data in GSM is already specified and will be rolled out soon.When that comes ATM or framerelay will probably be the interface towards Internet.Of course CDMA has a more built in packetapproach. CDMA has some advantages when it comes to highspeed if it hadn't ETSI wouldn't have taken CDMA as there 3g system. Harvey. I agree that IS-95 overlay on GSM could work for GSM-operators. The problem is just to find Infrastructureproviders and mobile providers that will produce any equipment for this.It's one thing to make a experimental system to test an airinterface a completly other business to make a comercial system.Now when the 3G systems is coming the manufacturers will concentrate on that.The company that has most experience of the GSM-overlay is Vodaphone.They where one of the strongest backers of WCDMA./R