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To: w molloy who wrote (30743)	5/24/1999 4:26:00 PM
From: recycled_electron	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Wireless data : reality check > Skeptisim about CDMA carriers' interest in data may be unfounded... Your're right that additional channels for higher data rates leave fewer for voice calls.. but, expensive base station (vocoder) and PSTN resources are not tied up for data calls.. i.e. if the carrier is smart, they could position data calls for cheaper service and make their CDMA service really attractive!! For instance, in Japan, email over embedded browser is a huge selling feature... think it costs just 10 yen to send an email!! All the teenagers are sending each other short email messages in the subways and elsewhere... Also, the cdmaOne phones with browsers are selling like hot cakes in Japan!! All cdmaOne phones there support upto 14.4 kbps asynch. and packet data (from laptop) High Speed CDMA data services in Japan and Korea is going to be a reality soon... Question is (like I asked several weeks before), why are we behind in the US? More skepticism? ;-) Sudeepto.