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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (4636)	5/9/2000 9:09:00 AM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	of 34857

Is there any third-party source of network reliability data? Stuff like dropped calls in a particular area. I switched from ATT Wireless to Sprint about eight mos. ago (QCOM fan!), but recently switched back to ATT. Reason: I had tons of dropped calls w/Sprint (in Austin). This was with a vaunted Samsung SCH-3500. I did not want to believe this at first, since I expected my first experience with CDMA PCS to be, like, wonderful. But I have also learned of many others with lots of dropped calls locally on Sprint and GTE. I reactivated my 2-year-old NOK 6160 on ATT; no dropped calls. Voicestream recently started operating in Austin, and they have (surprise) very aggressive pricing plans. I was thinking of trying them, but was a bit uncertain as to the reliability of their brand-new network. My thinking was that if Sprint has been in Austin for over two years and still sucks, how good can VSTR be out of the chute? But I don't know if startup reliability is different for GSM. Any thoughts? It seems like consumers are flying blind.

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