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Technology Stocks : The New Qualcomm - a S&P500 company
QCOM 165.07-1.0%3:59 PM EST
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To: D.J.Smyth who wrote (9892)5/10/2000 12:34:00 PM
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And how much of this is AT&T trying to cover their tails just before teh AWE lawsuit when they find out that it was a thinly disguised ploy to take $10B from existing shareholders and funnel it to the bottom line of AT&T, thus leaving a worthless stock for AWE investors?

It is funny how every time someone gets their back to the wall, they start this campaign. Do the AT&T marketing guys really think that this ploy will help them? In no way is TDMA even close to CDMA in any shape or form. Most of the US TDMA system relies on the fact that they have analog. Wihtout it, they would have been sued out of business long ago by not being able to support all the subscribers, poor quality, dropped calls, etc..

Quick...if TDMA is such a good deal, name the handset mfgs who STOPPED making TDMA handsets over the last 5 years? List is 5 times longer than the ones still making them. Now list the handset mfgs who make CDMA handsets. Did the list shrink ? Did you see any of them give up and just go back to analog phones, because the carrier will just buy their analog phones and they didn;t have to support the digital TDMA mode? All these CEOs are not that stupid to just drop such a good tehcnology.

I sugest that this letter will go the way of other famous posts, such as "jacobs patter" in WSJ, ERICY "cdma won't work", Bill Frezza, etc.
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