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To: georges urbin who wrote (557)	2/27/1998 10:41:00 PM
From: Quincy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Hi Georges! ETR271 section 4.3 says "UMTS mobile stations should be flexible/adaptive in order to support different air interfaces and to provide functionality for telecommunication service." While there isn't a context for me to take this out of, Tero, it says "more parts and a shorter battery life" to me! My field of expertise and career focus on the broadcasting and PSTN equipment manufacturers. If the glacially emerging Digital TV market is an obvious indication of the economic problems any 3GW standard is going to face, 2002 may be optimistic as we wait for a working demonstration. VHS is just fine for me. I don't see the demise of IS95. Billions of dollars have been invested in PCS licenses and equipment. Considering the LMDS auctions are running now, CTIA did not bring joyous announcements of WCDMA contracts from ETSI members. Until UMTS manages to come to my neck of the woods, the 1Mb/s data rate from IS95C and the same coverage I am enjoying now looks attractive. IS95 is still the standard with no insurmountable limit on capacity (can't do anything about running out of T1 circuits on the base station.) All four infastructure manufacturers for IS95 appear to be on the first generation of base stations with 3 antenna sectors and first or second generation ASIC's. Qualcomm just announced their next generation of base station chips at CTIA. The only capacity limit IS95 appears to have is related to the same switch challenges that will also stump WCDMA and GSM. Then, of course, that would be a good reason to replace the switch and add a few million more to the UMTS pricetag. I don't buy into the WCDMA agenda (realizing I am not suffering the European GSM capacity problems.) History has proven that just because they build it, the marketplace still needs a reason to buy it. GSM providers in Europe are quietly suffering from lack of capacity. I am well aware of Vodaphone's ETSI support. But, they have a problem that needs to be solved well before 2001. Since Vodaphone was the partner for the Qualcomm GSM overlay test, I am not making any assumptions until I see press coverage.