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To: Caxton Rhodes who wrote (1148)	8/28/1999 12:07:00 AM
From: JohnG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

Caxton. AT&T's best interest will be best served if there is any way they can warp the 3G standard to allow them to maintain a proprietary version of the standard. Older Americans and evidently many in S America have a blind allegance to all things AT&T. It may well be that they have a vision of AT&T and the US GSM operators going their own way. There is a lot of mouthing about the advantages to consumers of unified standards, but in the end, those companies currently having a significant share of todays market will take a hard look at maintaining a private standard. AT&T has a proud history of doing their own thing and convincing their customers to accept it. Their greatest fear should be the speed with which Sprint PCS, GTE, VOD/Airtouch and CellOne adopt CDMA and advanced digital services. Sprint is moving fast, but has only big city national service. VOD if combined with an economical G* could be deadly. CellOne seems to be asleep and GTE is sluggish due to the vast analogue assets. The big question is which way will the US GSM serices like BellSouth Mobility fall--toward a CDMA overlay or toward some W-CDMA or AT&T warped standard. I would really like to see Next Wave pop up as an additional National CDMA network. JohnG