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To: marginmike who wrote (43294)	10/4/1999 10:29:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 152472

If you look in ATT stores they are emptyt, Sprint is cleaning house. That's true. But there are a lot of stores that are not official AT&T stores that are pushing mainly AT&T. These mom & pop small stores must be getting great incentives from AT&T. I think they sell a fair amount of phones, mostly to the first time buyers. Now I have to find out more about these AT&T horror stories. Again, what prompted me to have a second look at AT&T is their new phone that is coming out in November (by Mitsubishi) that has larger screen, built in browser, the data service is CDPD, priced at $29.95 for unlimited access, or even less - $19.95 special when accessing limited number of places. It impressed the hell out of me. You can build all kinds of Internet applications and use this kind of phone as a client. You can even build a Palm Pilot like apps, with only the dumb browser in your hand acting like a Palm Pilot (minus the handwriting recognition). You never have to worry about transferring data. It's sitting somewhere out there on some corporate network, or on a Wireless Knowledge like service. Your broker will one day add interface for the micro-browsers, and you can access your account, trade anywhere. I think it is going to be very big. But for now QCOM (or more precisely US CDMA carriers) are missing out on this opportunity. Joe