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To: SKIP PAUL who wrote (1212)9/2/1999 3:54:00 AM
From: limtex  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 13582
 
SP -

I've been trying to get a Thin Phone at Best Buy in Houston for over three months but no dice. I haven't tried in the last week or so. Maybe there now. Q is going to have to get a little faster with production or slower with the announcement of goodies for us in order to manage expectations. All these willing customers out there and we couldn't get product. This is going to be a quicker and quicker market and the Finns have their production working like clockwork. Q has got to get much better at the manufacturing side if it is to compete in manufacturing.

One thing for sure is that Dr Jacobs and the team know what they are doing. So if they want to manufacture handsets they must have very good reasons for doing so.

Now who remember that nice little article in the WSJ earlier this year which revealed to an astonished World that the Q's sales in Korea in April or March were a huge blip cuased only by the ending of government subsidies on handsets? Remember that one. OK Everen, Roberts has proved himself a friend and that wasn't the case with the author of the WSJ article but still .........

Best regards,

L



To: SKIP PAUL who wrote (1212)9/2/1999 10:31:00 AM
From: RalphCramden  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 13582
 
QCOM is rebating the thinphone for Sprint customers. this could effect margins.

Could you explain this? I just now checked sprintpcs.com for a san diego and a new york zip code, and on neither of these pages was the thin phone offered as a phone choice. How can QCOM be rebating thin phones at sprint if sprint doesn't even offer the thin phone to its customers?

Thanks,
Mike