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To: w molloy who wrote (30491)	5/21/1999 7:05:00 PM
From: Rick	Respond to of 152472

GSM was the supposed secret behind the planned "overthrow" of Microsoft: "Psion, in contrast, is focused solely on wireless Internet and voice communications technology. To that end, the company reckons it has an advantage. Its partners in Symbian control 80 percent of wireless phone production worldwide and, with Ericsson and Nokia in particular, it has tied itself to G.S.M., or global system for mobile communications, a standard that gives consumers seamless communications throughout most of Europe and onto South Africa and parts of Asia. The United States market is fractured into multiple standards, none strong enough to emerge as dominant. "Right now, you have the G.S.M. guys really trying to control the market," said Abhi Chaki, a telecommunications analyst at Jupiter Communications in New York. "And I think they'll be successful in that because they have the standard, whereas in the United States there are four or five technologies that exist like different islands." Fred