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To: Ramsey Su who wrote (9838)	4/15/1998 11:00:00 AM
From: engineer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Long ago Japan decided to reverse the frequency ranges for the Recive and transmit on thier phones in an attempt to protect their market. It is still that way today, so when the new CDMa rolls out, the RX and TX frequencies are reversed. It is not very diffacult to build this arrangement, but differnt enough that only the japanese so far have announced an interest in changing their phones to match this.

To: Ramsey Su who wrote (9838)	4/15/1998 11:21:00 AM
From: engineer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Have any of you been to Korea lately. Over here on business and the phone market is very crazy still. Imagine a street where it is a continous line of neon store fronts and then imagine that on each building there is probably at least one phone advertisement sign, either for service or for a phone store itself. imagine a street where there is not more than 100 meters between phone stores and in some cases a whole street long of 100 or more side by side (youngSam Area). I do not even see this level of stuff in japan. some numbers; Korean PCS still adding at between 10k and 50k subs per month, cellular probably about the same. total CDMa subs at almost 7M, but growing by 100-200k per month. Airtime rates in this government mandated and unregulated business is about 9 cents a minute with a monthly charge ranging from $5-20 per month. Phone prices to consumer is about $50. I do not think the party is over, over here yet....And they have two carriers with data announced and rolled out. SKTel announced a data trial with packet type services and LGTel announced a circuit switched service using the IS-707 standard. This is way ahead of the US carriers....