Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!haven!decuac!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: CTH_CO@tekno.chalmers.se (CHRISTER OLSSON) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Swedish Cordless Phones Message-ID: Date: 12 Oct 89 20:17:22 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden Lines: 37 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us > CORDLESS TELEPHONES--A new generation of cordless telephones is > appearing in Europe, which are being called "the poor man's mobile > telephone". At the same time, the current cordless phones in Sweden > cost more than cellular telephones in many other countries. 'The new generation of cordless telephones' isn't cordless telephones. It's digital handheld mobile telephones in same size as the smallest mobile telephone today. It`s not a Swedish standard, it's a new European standard. The first telephones will appear in late 1990 and the first system-installation of the new mobile-telephone system is coming to Norwegians in their capital city Oslo for testing. Today's mobile phones cost about $2000 in Sweden; legal cordless phones about $500 - $900. The smallest handheld mobile phones cost a whole $4000. The new digital `poor man's mobile phone' could cost $300 - $400 in the future. > Cordless telephones have become popular all over the Western World and > the Far East. The exception is Sweden, where cordless telephones > remain too expensive for ordinary households. In fact, Swedish > cordless telephones cost more than the mobile or cellular telephones > used in automobiles in other countries. No, mobile phones cost two to three times more than legal cordless phones. > The British decision is controversial, because European standards have > yet to be decided. Britain hopes to sell its CT-2 system to the rest > of Europe, so that the same pocket telephone can be used anywhere in > the continent. It now looks as thought the French have accepted the > British system, for their "Pointel" public cordless network. Forget the British CT-2 system. /Christer Olsson -- Some hackers was here --