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To: Yamakita who wrote (39923)	9/6/1999 9:28:00 PM
From: Uncle Frank	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

>> Clear technolust from 19-year-old Japanese girls though--they all knew that cdma was clearer and better, and wanted to let it be known that they knew it. Peter Lynch would approve of your methods, Yamakita san. Please authorize me to begin a survey of 19 year old American girls to measure their technolust quotient <vbg>. uf

To: Yamakita who wrote (39923)	9/6/1999 10:37:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 152472

Great AO by Yamakita [TM] thanks! It's so good to know that there is a huge buildup of market demand, all of which will be directed to cdmaOne or cdma2000 when available, or even VW40 if they ever move it from the back of a truck into a handset. What do you think it would take to start the Japanese teen technolust shift going from NTT to cdmaOne? If 10 of them are still holding CoCoMo handsets, not even 1 cdma-da, then there is obviously quite a price change needed. I suppose the first customers are those wealthy businessmen who can afford $125 and as they all supplied, the price will work its way down to the technolust teens. Is there any shortage of cdmaOne handsets in Japan or can you just get any one you want at any shop? As expected, 1998 saw the big onslaught by cdmaOne. 1999 should be nothing less than spectacular. Korea is a reasonable model for what will happen in Japan, USA, Australia, Canada and I suppose Brazil, Peru, Mexico and elsewhere as prices drop, the systems roll out completely and the USA drops the absurd 'called party pays' which I believe is a major inhibitor of prolific cellphone use. China remains a wild card with a very heavy GSM establishment. We should know more about that in a week. Mqurice PS: You better watch where you whip out your handset! If you get crowds of 19 year old girls shrieking at you, pining for it. You sure you haven't been reading too many of those saucy fantasy comics everyone on the trains seems to read? You better get a Globalstar handset. Now THAT's impressive. They'll shriek "Banzai! What a ninja CDMA-da samurai man". When you put the aerial up, you'll cause riots. Maybe Globalstar should use size to advantage. "Globalstar! For real men. Ready for action out in the wild. No SUV wusses need apply." Globalstar - a handset in your pocket that won't draw sneers when they ask whether you are in love with them ... Okay, sorry to lower the tone of the neighborhood.