> -----Mensaje original----- > De: Hugo G�vert [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Enviado el: Martes 21 de Noviembre de 2000 5:10 AM > > On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Rick Huber wrote: > > > at a long time. Oh, did we forget to mention that a mobile phone only has a > > 14.4k modem at BEST in it? With all the overhead the phone needs to use it > > What kind of phone are you using?!? Get a new one! ;-) > Nokia 6210 can do 43.2 kbps with HSCSD (which is already available here in > Finland at least). Also GPRS is just around the corner... operators are > trying to get it enabled even before the end of the year, and first phones > should be arriving at the same time (beginning of next year at the > latest). The speed of GPRS is still a bit unknown (well afaik it depends > on other trafic), but you could be getting something like 100 kbps. That's > here almost tomorrow :-) (Personally I'm quite pessimistic about > the available speed in the beginning) > > In the future we should also be having 3G phones... with lot's of promises > (which I won't state here as there...) > > Best regards, > Hugo. The Western Hemisphere is stuck in the Stone Age of anarchic cell phone technology, while Europe is zooming into the third millenium thanks to mandated standards. Oscar A. Valdez Grupo Didea, El Salvador Tel. (503) 221-1880 [EMAIL PROTECTED] * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
