Deals are expected to take place between companies that use similar technical formats.
VoiceStream and Powertel operate on G.S.M., the same technical format used by Deutsche Telekom and other European carriers.
Anderson initially assumed that, given the exactingly technical format, his participation in the day-to-day shooting would be limited.
But economics and industry politics, as well as continued disagreements over technical formats, have delayed the long-predicted digital revolution in movie theaters.
The move by AT&T Wireless also puts pressure on competitors like Verizon Wireless and Cingular Wireless, the nation's largest and second-largest wireless carriers to declare a future technical format.
MapInfo and Lucent plan to base their services on existing technical formats that are more common in Europe than the United States -- like the wireless application protocol, or WAP, and the global standard for mobile communications, or G.S.M.
As an interim step during the next two years, AT&T Wireless plans to shift from the technical format it currently uses to two global standards for mobile communications -- G.S.M. and G.P.R.S., for general packet radio service -- that are more common in Europe and Asia than in the United States.
This means introducing faster, less technical formats of the game, such as tapeball, for first-time players.He also says it is now unrealistic to expect the state-school system to produce Test match cricketers in the way that private ones do, because they lack their peers' resources.
Not only do these changes make it difficult for this American style of debate to be an international model on its own, so long as other cultures do not possess whatever cultural peculiarities made this highly technical format of debate attractive, they have led to dramatic demographic changes in the American "policy debate" world.
Various technical formats for using phages as ICs were optimised and validated.
