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- From: zsigo@netcom.com (Konstantin Zsigo)
- Subject: Data Transmission Over PCS-1900
- Message-ID: <zsigoDn02uw.6KH@netcom.com>
- Keywords: wireless,data
- Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 01:59:20 GMT
- Sender: zsigo@netcom.netcom.com
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- Several experts to speak regarding data transmission over PCS-1900
- frequencies
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- Some people think that the new PCS-1900 frequencies in the United States
- will be used primarily for voice communications, positioned as a low-cost
- local loop replacement with the advantage of mobility. However, if you look
- carefully at the airlink technologies proposed for those new frequencies,
- and even modest estimates regarding their capacity, it is unclear that the
- voice market will ever be big enough to fill the new band.
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- While the impending battle for marketshare amongst new providers will
- likely be good for price-conscious consumers, the low revenue-per-
- subscriber and high infrastructure costs would indicate that the current
- wireless market could not support all of these competitors.
-
- We think this is an opportunity for PCS carriers, especially those in the
- smaller bands (D, E and F) to create data-only networks, where service
- differentiation would come as a result of offering extremely high airlink
- rates, perhaps even to T1 speeds. Services that could be offered include
- high speed packet-switching for LAN access or mobile video conferencing.
-
- At this years upcoming CelluComm '96 Cellular Data Conference, several
- individuals will have the opportunity to voice their opinions on this
- subject and relay their company's initiatives. A list of them appears
- below.
-
- We are looking for opinions/questions to pose to this group prior to the
- event itself. The media will be following this event, and several
- interesting articles will likely hit the press just after the presentations.
- If you have an opinion/question/comment, please email it to us, and we'll
- present it (anonymously if you prefer) to the panels, the press, and may
- even read it aloud at the conference itself.
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- Current list of presenters on digital cellular data & PCS-1900
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- Jay Kitchen, PCIA
- the President of the Industry Association
- Dave Gaetani, Sprint Spectrum
- pioneer pref PCS carrier, deployed in Washington DC
- Mark Vonarx, Omnipoint
- pioneer pref PCS carrier, deployed in New York
- Roy Gunter, Nokia
- expert on data over GSM networks
- Dennis Abremski, QUALCOMM
- in charge of developing data over CDMA
- Okan Azamuk/Nortel & Steven Howser/Omnipoint
- working on data over IS-661
- Duane Sharman/ISOTEL
- member of TDMA data working group
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- CelluComm '96 Overview
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- CelluComm is the only conference/exhibition exclusively dedicated to data
- transmission over 850, 1800, and 1900MHz networks. Technologies addressed
- include data over upbanded GSM, CDMA, TDMA, IS-661, AMPS, CDPD, Circuit-
- Switched, CS/CDPD and Cellemetry. Experts gather from all over the world to
- share ideas, technologies, and business strategies. There are vendor
- workshops, IndustryTrack sessions, CorporateTrack teaching tutorials, and a
- full trade show floor.
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- For information on attending or exhibiting, contact:
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- Zsigo Wireless Data Consultants, Inc.
- 2875 Northwind Drive, Suite 232, East Lansing, MI 48823
- 517-337-3995 (phone); 517-337-5012 (fax)
- zsigo@netcom.com (company)
-
- Konstantin J. Zsigo, President
- kzsigo@ix.netcom.com (personal)
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