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Technology Stocks : METRICOM - Wireless Data Communications
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To: HVN who wrote (580)12/18/1997 9:48:00 AM
From: Tim Kenney  Read Replies (1) of 3376
 
Hubert, I believe that recently stated their membership at 17,500. When they give a $5-$7 million cost figure, they are talking about the cost of actually building the network. Their costs in negotiating with localities would come under their SG&A expenses. They have admitted that the negotiation process is somewhat arduous. It is for that reason that they try to negotiate new sites while still building out old sites.

>Does anyone know how many customers they actually have? It's odd that they keep referring to
thousands of customers, but never put out any actual numbers. By comparison, CDPD has less than
20K customers nationwide and that too with GTE, Bell Atlantic, Ameritech, AT&T, SBC, and a few
other small players pushing the technology and products in a big way.

Another thing I am skeptical about is that they claim to be able to light up a market with their cell sites
for around $5-7 million each. Given the fact that they have to deal with local governments and
companies, I'd think it would cost more the get mafia clearance itself than the $5-7 million they spend -
unless Paul Allen has offered to help them out there!!! Anyone has any thoughts on this one?<
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