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To: brian h who wrote (30409)	5/20/1999 1:32:00 AM
From: Jim Willie CB	Respond to of 152472

on Sprint PCS Staples has announced a major push initiative to invest in the Sprint PCS wireless business at stores... spending somewhat big money in rest of 1999 and 2000 to corral small business spending on cellphones... they are lining up / JW

To: brian h who wrote (30409)	5/20/1999 1:32:00 AM
From: engineer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

The issue of compression is one that has plagued the community for awhile. the big issue is the total protocol stack. If you encrypt and then compress, then you do nothing since compression works by looking for long strings of repeating bits and making a smaller code to represent that. If you compress and then encrypt, you may have a lossy system (i.e create bit errors somewhere) and not get back the bits you compressed. If your a corporate guy, you want encryption so that your sensitive email does not get posted to xxxuniversity.edu bulletin boards... The complete stack needs to be addressed in a very strict way. Not easy.

To: brian h who wrote (30409)	5/20/1999 6:15:00 AM
From: Mika Kukkanen	Respond to of 152472

Brian H RE:- All & Mika (What did you mean by that?) WebOnAir uses quite some compression technique, but it also whittles down the graphic content of a web page and I believe this is where much of the speed is gained. As we know, it's the graphics that take the longest to load. The up to 4 times quicker is the most optimistic and the most pessimistic would be no quicker! So I would take somewhere between. I do use my notebook a lot on the road and I personally would be interested in the service (come on Vodafone). Of course I can't wait until GPRS, but that will be next year and I would have to change my phone (mind you, my current one, although it has an in-built modem is still crap!). Ericy are very much concentrating on e-commerce and in particular wireless e-commerce of late. Even the WebOnAir solution fits with this strategy. Much talk has been made of e-commerce, but I have to admit I never followed it too much. In the last few months it seems to be one of the hottest topics around (today it is being reported that the UK Government are getting slammed for their e-commerce proposals). For the Globalstar followers, look out for a new phone coming in the next week or so! Although another phone for a competing satellite system will be announced around the same time. All for now, Mika