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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (512)	7/18/1999 7:52:00 PM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 531

Tero, Thanks for your prompt response and comments which are much appreciated. I'll add a few of mine from the "consumer" point of view ... and as a consumer I am one of those people for whom the AT&T Digital One Rate plan makes a great deal of sense. Most of my fellow executives at our corporation use it and save about $500/month on cellular compared to previous service. They put up with a lot of dropped calls in certain areas since AT&T TDMA is obviously overloaded. Actually I'm a bit more fortunate. I reside In BAM/Omnipoint land so I use BAM (800MHz CDMA & AMPS) for nationwide US service (calling plan virtually identical to AT&T) and Omnipoint when I travel abroad (using the Bosch World Phone). AMPS makes my current satisfaction of (otherwise digital) cellular service possible and, IMO, Dual Mode (with AMPS) has contributed significantly to the popularity and rapid growth of CDMA & TDMA (and to a lesser extent GSM), PCS in the US. I live on the very fringe of both BAM & Omnipoint coverage and a mile away I am on AMPS. When I travel locally or nationally I am analog about 10% of the time and that 10% is very important. Nokia (from your native Finland) was first to market with a dual mode/dual band GSM/AMPS in the US (for VoiceStream). Their efforts to introduce a dual mode handset that incorporated a SIM with the CAEVE algorithm should certainly simplify the introduction of a GSM/TDMA/AMPS/Multi Band handset. I still look forward to the day when I have one phone and one subscription for both national & global roaming. Size is considerably less important to me than coverage, cost (of service), and standby time. I look forward to Part 2 of your "Register" article. - Eric -