[47380] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Large ISPs doing NAT?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Thu May 2 20:28:25 2002
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 20:27:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
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On Thu, 2 May 2002, Joe Abley wrote:
> The concern exists regardless of the specifics of the always-on,
> cellular packet radio protocols being used, surely?
You're right, of course. I was focusing on the wrong thing when I replied.
> > [GSM coverage is patchy in the US]
>
> It's prevalent elsewhere. I'd be surprised if there aren't more GSM
> subscribers in the world than non-GSM subscribers.
GSM is *the* standard in Europe. Australia, Korea, Japan and a couple
other Pacific-Rim countries are primarily CDMA. South America is primarily
TDMA. Most of the rest of the world is GSM, if I'm not mistaken.
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