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To: Ruffian who wrote (34276)	7/8/1999 2:25:00 PM
From: kech	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Mosberg from WSJ was just interviewed about his article in Heard on the Street trashing AT&T's CellularOne OneRate plan. He panned it because of spotty coverage. Another issue acknowledged was the problem of busy signals when calling and dropped calls. The latter are symptoms of insufficient capacity. He even made the analogy to the AOL marketing disaster when they went to a fixed rate of $19.95 but didn't have the capacity. His conclusion is that AT&T has to do the same thing and put up big time capacity. Unsaid and perhaps unknown by Mossberg is that they won't do that because they use TDMA and adding capacity is much more expensive than for their competitors -- further they will have to junk it whenever they move to 3G. It looks like AT&T has painted itself into a corner with the wrong technology.