[86686] in Cypherpunks
Re: what is a PKS phone? (Re: Notes from the Cypherpunks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Minow)
Tue Sep 16 20:39:50 1997
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<Pine.BSD/.3.91.970916190021.29172B-100000@mrburns.iosphere.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 16:20:55 -0700
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Martin Minow <minow@apple.com>
Cc: Cynthia Brown <cynthb@sonetis.com>, aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk
Reply-To: Martin Minow <minow@apple.com>
>On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Adam Back wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>
and Cynthia Brown replied:
>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.
>
I think Cynthia is correct (I was transcribing Eric Hughes' Japanese
"trip report"). Eric was talking about a very small micro-cell phone
extremely popular with Japanese teenagers.
Martin Minow
minow@apple.com
