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To: Uncle Frank who wrote (39932)	9/7/1999 12:27:00 AM
From: Yamakita	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

But Uncle Franq, you don't have $6 cups of coffee being offered in the same cafes as FREE cups of coffee. It's true that many businessmen wouldn't think twice about plunking down $125 for a handset, but price-conscious teens see just two look-alike phones next to each other, one for free and one for the equivalent of 15 hours of their labor time. Yamaqita

To: Uncle Frank who wrote (39932)	9/7/1999 12:50:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

Franq, I was tongue in cheek saying "...once the wealthy businessmen had paid $125 for a handset". I'm well aware that the GNP per capita in Japan makes $125 disappear into the background noise. People even in this thread persist in talking as though Japan is an economic disaster zone. It is not! It remains about the wealthiest place on earth and more civilized than nearly anywhere, though the joie de vivre freedom of NZ makes life there somewhat restrictive. As Yamaqita says, free/$125 is still a choice to be made. It will be interesting to see at what price the flood to quality takes place. Yamqita, what's the price per minute for cdmaOne vs DoCoMo 'free' phones please? Maybe that slows the migration too. My son had a round of golf in Japan [admittedly at a good course] for $500 green fees. That's 3 cdmaOne phones! Here a cellphone is 5 rounds of golf at an equivalent course. If Japanese business people want a phone at $125, they'll get it! The handset supply and price must be pretty much in balance if there are millions of them everywhere, but technolust teens are still not buying them but sales are zooming. Unlike the ThinPhone, there's no shortage but neither are they sitting on the shelves unsold. Exciting cdmaOne times in Japan. I bet NTT is sweating on their VW40. Mqurice