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To: JohnG who wrote (33117)	6/24/1999 6:19:00 PM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Respond to of 152472

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To: JohnG who wrote (33117)	6/24/1999 7:29:00 PM
From: Morgan Drake	Respond to of 152472

Amen. I like it. Reminds me of the old military expression during the Vietnam War days re pacification: "Once you have them by the [male appendages], their hearts and minds are sure to follow." Seems to me that when you have the other guy on the ropes, you sure don't want to let him slip away. I hope Drs. J&V can see it in their hearts to set aside their kind, conciliatory manors (at least for a while), and go directly for the jugulars of our competitors. P.S. I recall reading an FBI study once relative to cop killers. Uniformly, the killers said that they made their lethal moves when the cops dropped their guards, momentarily hesitated, or gave the killers the benefit of the doubt. This provided the killers with the time and element of surprise to kill the cops.

To: JohnG who wrote (33117)	6/24/1999 10:23:00 PM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Instead, they should push toward CDMA 2000 at warp speed and help key wireless operators leave their competitors in the dust. Doing this may well result in forcing some wireless operators to adopt CDMA to remain in the game. Now is the time to press the advantage and not tolerate the competitor's slow movement toward W-CDMA. Does anybody have any estimates on when CDMA2000 will be a commercially viable system? I think that Qualcomm is supposed to begin sampling of the MSM5000 and CSM5000 by the end of the year. I assume that means they could be shipping in volume sometime in the first half of next year. What else will be needed to have Sprint or DDI/IDO begin putting in CDMA2000? I know a lot of us have assumed that CDMA2000 is well ahead of W-CDMA, but if NTT Docomo actually gets a system up and running by spring of 2001, I'm not so sure. Is everybody just assuming that their date will slip? Slacker