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Technology Stocks : AWE - ATT Wireless

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To: Pullin-GS who wrote (12)4/5/2000 7:58:00 PM
From: moat  Read Replies (2) of 329
 
Top national wireless operators (the competitive landscape):

fool.com

Here's what the new picture looks like, along with
the technology standards each company has chosen:

Bell Atlantic/Vodafone: 23 million subscribers, CDMA
SBC/BellSouth: 16.2 million, TDMA and GSM
AT&T: 12 million, TDMA
Sprint PCS: 5.9 million, CDMA
Nextel: 4.5 million, iDEN
VoiceStream Wireless: Over 2 million**, GSM

(note that MCI is buying Sprint)

Seems to me these are very valuable properties given
the following trends:

As price of services go down & coverage improves ....
with nationwide flat-rate plans w/out long distance
charges ... soon leading to wireless replacing
landlines ... plus wireless Internet access to come ...

With just a handfull of national players (with limited
spectrum), seems to me the value of these properties
are increasing ...
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