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To: Ramsey Su who wrote (12588)	7/20/1998 1:47:00 PM
From: Quincy	Respond to of 152472

Heh, haven't heard that name in a while... B-) One of Airtouch's ad campaigns hits home on analog compatibility. Their current TV ad features a businessman riding a limo far from civilization who hears about an impending stock market disaster on the radio and can't get a call through to his broker. "NO SERVICE" is flashing on his phone. The limo driver jacknifes in front of an oncoming family station wagon with an IS95 cellphone on vacation. The commercial ends where the businessman has a phone that actually works and the family is enjoying their vacation in a limo. Those commercials are aimed directly at all PCS providers. Fortunately, Sprint has been able to mitigate this problem with the QCP2700. Ericy's "World Phone" might provide the same solution. But, I am wondering how you can get number portability between IS41 and GSM/MAP base station structures. Then, there is the challenge of a transition when leaving a GSM cell to analog. And... Lucent is up 6 points already? Wow...

To: Ramsey Su who wrote (12588)	7/20/1998 4:28:00 PM
From: JMD	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Ramsey and all other similarly gifted technoids: although I would under normal circumstances undertake a full response to this item, pressing demands at M.I.T. on my multi-variant quantum waveform thesis prevents me from doing so at this time. What means this? Northern Telecom demonstrated 57.6 kb/s data services via Bell Mobility's commercial code division multiple access network last week at Canada's Comdex exposition. Using its own technology developed as part of a $60 million research program with Bell Mobility, Nortel achieved the high-speed data rates by combining four 14.4 kb/s channels. Rather than wait for the IS-95B specification, which outlines the migration to higher-speed data and has yet to be released, Nortel developed its own solution. The company will decide whether to offer an IS-95B solution, release its own solution for commercial use or not offer a 2.5 Gb/s solution at all, depending on customer demands, said Lino DeFacendis, manager of strategic marketing for Nortel Me not liking that NT can fiddle with a non IS-95 CDMA solution, particularly one that works. Come to think of it, me not liking non-IS-95 anything. Inquiring minds want to know. Surfer Mike