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To: Jill who wrote (5898)	9/2/1999 10:54:00 PM
From: Teflon	Respond to of 54805

Listen, I'll do whatever the consensus of this Thread thinks is right. This isn't personal. I was only trying to help while also providing a platform for those of us that like to talk about things that don't meet the standards set forth by the Group. Again, this was an attempt to help while maintaining the integrity of this AWESOME THREAD. Nothing more. Teflon

To: Jill who wrote (5898)	9/2/1999 11:04:00 PM
From: Mike Buckley	Respond to of 54805

The new CDMA subscriber data is up at the web site. I keep the data on a spreadsheet to track the growth. Total New Quarter Subs Subs Seq't'l Annual Ending X 1000 X 1000 Growth Growth Sep-97 4250 NA NA NA Dec-97 7800 3550 NA NA Mar-98 9225 1425 -60% NA Jun-98 12130 2905 104% NA Sep-98 16000 3870 33% NA Dec-98 23000 7000 81% 97% Mar-99 28515 5515 -21% 287% Jun-99 33622 5107 -7% 76% What does all that mumbo jumbo mean in gorilla terms? Look at the two quarters ending in December. They're huge, mostly likely due to holiday buying of cell phones and subscription services. The most important ramification is that the subsequent drop in growth rates during the periods ending in March is no surprise given the huge December quarters that will probably always be big due to holiday buying. No doubt you're wondering why the quarter ending in June of this year shows slightly negative sequential growth in new subscribers. It's hard if not impossible to absolutely know the cause. But this is not a dismal story. Though the quarter ending June experienced negative growth in new subscribers, that growth compared with a year earlier is still up 76%. There there were 20% more new subscribers in the quarter than total subscribers just 21 months earlier (September, 1997). And there were 15% more new subscribers added in the first half of this year than there were total subscribers in March, 1998. To sum it up, with each of the last three quarters showing an average of 121% annual growth, I'd say the tornado's winds are still fiercely blowing. Hunker down in the cellar. --Mike Buckley