Dear Barbara
The press release I mentioned in my previous post tells that
the second quarter results come out in early July. If they list
subscription rates, they will be misleading unless they normalize
them to subscriptions per week or something, for the reason that
they opened the markets one by one. In the Minneapolis market Aerial
has now competition from Airtouch, which just began to offer PCS
services there. However, besides Aerial's licenses in Minnesota, the
rest of the state is served by Rural Cellular, which turns out to be
owned basically by Aerial. Hence the Minnesota market might by good
for Aerial despite the competition. I don't know what is happening
in Houston, Kansas City, and Pittsburgh. Piitsburg is attractive since
I70 runs from Columbus to just south of Pittsburgh and will be
in continuous service. From there Aerial customers can pick up Omnipoint, as they travel to NY, NJ, and Philly.
Regarding roaming licenses, you can check the web-page of Omnipoint.
From there you can see who the operational GSM companies are and which
oens have already roaming.
Omnipoint NY, NJ, Eastern Penn
Bell South NC, SC etc.
Aerial
Sprint Spectrum DC and coast of Maryland
PacBell California
Western Wireless (VoiceStream) Wash. Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Colorado
Iowa (Des Moines), ElPaso etc.
InterCell Tennessee, Kentucky ?
The roaming agreements between Aerial and these will be ready
by first of September, if not sooner.
Talk to you soon, Seppo |
