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To: Ruffian who wrote (16838)	10/21/1998 12:26:00 AM
From: Clarksterh	Respond to of 152472

Re: said North American GSM Alliance Chairman Don Warkentin, the president and CEO of [ Aerial Communications ] . "Efforts by other groups to artificially constrain the marketplace to one single standard are not in the best interests of the consumer." Not really a surprise. They, the US GSM carriers, are in a world of hurt if the 3g standard is backwards compatible with IS-95. The IS-95 carriers would need to spend X to upgrade and GSM/TDMA carriers need to spend 2X. Their only hope is that an incompatible standard becomes the primary 3g standard (i.e. W-CDMA remains incompatible with IS-95 and it is accepted over CDMA-2000 because it is the GSM replacement) and all others die in some way. Clark PS Note that the same is not true of GSM carriers where there was no local competition in CDMAOne. They may have to spend 2X, but so will any new carrier.