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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (43252)	10/4/1999 8:33:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 152472

Jim, you seem to fixate totally on wireless data... I believe capacity constraints have already become a big problem with ATT... I believe signal echo and resulting static has already become a big problem with most carriers... a CellularOne friend is a sumo user and is ready to bolt from static alone I don't see the static as a problem at all, from the limited experience. My nanny has an AT&T cell-phone and I think the voice quality is consistently better than our Sprint CDMA phones (Qualcomm 1920). A friend of mine has Bel Atlantic CDMA phone, and his has the same quality problem. I sounds like the person talking is running or is short of breath. I am not sure if it is caused by the vocoders or what. Everything else is from the point of view of a customer irrelevant. It's for AT&T to worry about how they make money and how they solve their capacity problems. What if Sprint has plenty of available spectrum, and the spectrum they use is used efficiently if they don't deploy enough equipment on their unused spectrum to alleviate their capacity problems? (I hear about them, but I have not experienced them) sure, data is not quite ready for prime time but CDMA advantages are not limited to data transmission rake receiving and spreadem rectum are big features I didn't know it was one of the features of CDMA ;-) Anyway, I think I have some idea about the list of features of CDMA and it's advantages. But in the marketplace, this has not been translated to a significant difference to the consumer. Joe