Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!tukki.jyu.fi!jyu.fi!otto From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Cellular Phones of the Future Message-ID: Date: 21 Nov 90 17:43:59 GMT References: <6571@bgsu-stu.UUCP> <1990Nov19.085022.13398@yenta.alb.nm.us> <1990Nov19.175339.14777@zoo.toronto.edu> Sender: news@tukki.jyu.fi (News articles) Organization: Turing Police, Criminal AI section Lines: 14 In-Reply-To: henry@zoo.toronto.edu's message of 19 Nov 90 17:53:39 GMT In article <1990Nov19.175339.14777@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: The demand looks to me to be fairly small, unlikely to be more than the current cellular systems, or modest upgrades thereof, can handle. Few people actually have much of a need for mobile phone service, barring emergencies... If it becomes available cheap, there will be demand. Lots. Remember how it was said (back in the days of Univac) that a dozen computers would suffice for the computing needs of the whole planet ? -- /* * * Otto J. Makela * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ /* Phone: +358 41 613 847, BBS: +358 41 211 562 (CCITT, Bell 24/12/300) */ /* Mail: Kauppakatu 1 B 18, SF-40100 Jyvaskyla, Finland, EUROPE */ /* * * Computers Rule 01001111 01001011 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */