Re: Cellular Phones of the Future

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 1990 05:32

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In article <OTTO.90Nov21184359@tukki.jyu.fi> otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) 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...
>
>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 ?

Remember how it was said that everyone would have Picturephones by now?
Things don't get cheap without substantial demand *first*.
-- 
"I'm not sure it's possible            | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
to explain how X works."               |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry

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Subject: Re: Cellular Phones of the Future
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