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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (1876)	5/3/1999 12:04:00 PM
From: DaveMG	Respond to of 34857

I'm not sure that's a crucial issue - operators aren't going to switch into a different standard because the data solutions might be cheaper there, no matter which standard offers cheapest data. It's still such a small part of running a network. That's not exactly what I meant.I presume you're correct that carriers will not swich from GSM to CDMA rather than add GPRS/EDGE. I'm wondering more form the perspective of someone who is building out capacity today in a new market, or a new carrier in an existing market. Such a buyer will have to get up to sped with data from the start. So the question is what is the cost of this GSM/GPRS/EDGE solution per sub when compared with CDMAone/2000 when starting from scratch today? It's still to early to glean much from new infrastructure orders. It's only been a few weeks since the ERICY/QCOM sttlement. We haven't seen specs on WCDMA so we don't know what type of performance advantages will be claimed over CDMA2000, things like that. Dave