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From: rsellens@watdcsu.UUCP (Rick Sellens - Mech. Eng.)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Re: Re: 68000 Laptop portables with networking
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Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 11:52:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 16 11:52:00 1985
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Reply-To: rsellens@watdcsu.UUCP (Rick Sellens - Mech. Eng.)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

>> If you want to take it that far.......How about a modem somehow attached
>> to the portable part of a cordless phone, or maybe one of these "cellular
>> telephone systems" that they are advertising these days. Does anyone know
>> whether the signal quality would be high enough for reasonable transfer
>> rates with a reasonable error rate?
>> 
>> 
>> Rick Sellens
>
>   I know for a fact that this is being implemented on the U.K. cellular
>radio systems by both Racal-Vodafone and Cellnet (the B.T. system). The
>rumours in the computing press said that each system was proposing 
>different error-correction standards. Anyone know anything more about
>this ????
>
>-- 
>Mike Pellatt, Software Support, AT&T Computer Division, British Olivetti Ltd.,


The September issue of Info Age magazine has a short article about a modem
system available for use with cellular phones. I don't remember the
manufacturer, but it looks like there is a real product, or products out there.


Rick Sellens
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