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To: Jon Koplik who wrote (1166)	1/27/2002 12:33:04 AM
From: Lance Bredvold	Read Replies (1) of 2737

Jon; I have not learned how to download it yet. I just select a bunch of tunes and put them in my account, then let the machine shuffle them and let them run while I'm doing other tasks. I'm sure that is inefficient and I thought at first that it would download to my hard drive the first time and from then on would not need to go back to the server, but apparently that is not what happens. So late at night I take a look at my total and am amazed and while the songs are still running I can watch about 3kb go by every 3 seconds or so. Heck, I don't know where it goes. Just looked at that counter and I'm showing 40 megabytes. Guess I went to sleep listening to the QCOM conference call last night so maybe it has not been off all today. My actual usage, as you suggest, has not been every day. In fact I have not used it at all today. Also felt so guilty about the song from Prairie Home Companion (Jo Serrapere and the Hot Tail Section singing something called "changin like the seasons") that I sent her an e*mail and a check so she could mail me a CD. Don't know how I'll use the CD since I only really liked 4 songs out of 10 or more on there. You might want to give a listen if you can play MP3's. Saucy! But I sort of gather older computers can't do that. I think you said once you were still using a windows 95 and that is what I just put in the basement for a new XP. As for what carriers are going to charge me; I have no idea but it is certainly going to be more than the cost QCOM is advertising, I suspect there are some other costs like infrastructure capital costs or maybe marketing or something which QCOM is not including. And then there is at least 50% markup (remember that from marketing class? In the retail trades that means double what you paid for a product). So I think 10 cents is a fair guess after a long period of settlement, but right now it is $6 or 7 or 8 and companies including cricKet would be foolish not to get some of that high margin while they can. Kind of looks like PCS couldn't drum up the conversation he likes over here and I sort of encouraged him to participate on Yahoo. I just wish the number argumentative posts would not increase so dramatically. Lance

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