[86685] in Cypherpunks
Re: what is a PKS phone? (Re: Notes from the Cypherpunks September Bay Area Meeting)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cynthia Brown)
Tue Sep 16 20:30:18 1997
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 19:08:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Cynthia Brown <cynthb@sonetis.com>
To: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
cc: minow@apple.com, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <199709162139.WAA00815@server.test.net>
Reply-To: Cynthia Brown <cynthb@sonetis.com>
On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Adam Back wrote:
> Martin Minow <minow@apple.com> writes:
> > EH: New Japanese phenonemon: tiny PKS cell phones. Teen-agers (who
> > are driving lifestyle changes) all use them.
>
> What is a PKS phone?
>
> Does it have end to end encryption? Or is it just a standard GSM
> phone in a star-trek communicator style form-factor, or something
> else?
Could be a typo for PCS, which is similar to GSM but uses the 1.9 GHz band
instead of 900 MHz (GSM) or 1.8 GHz (DCS). Unfortunately, I don't think
there are dual-mode phones yet.
Cynthia
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