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To: Joe NYC who wrote (43440)	10/5/1999 7:23:00 PM
From: James Sinclair	Respond to of 152472

What I would like to see is the web access as available, and priced somewhere between Caller Id and text messaging. Once you open it up, and let the wireless phone act like a modem for you laptap, the useage of bandwidth goes through the roof, and so do prices. Joe, I absolutely agree that the different levels of access should be priced differently. However, I understood the theme of your many posts on this subject to be that the higher bandwidth wasn't needed because there were ways to work around lower bandwidth connections, and therefore the bandwidth advantages provided by CDMA technology shouldn't be considered by a wireless carrier. If you really need to browse the web on your laptop using wireless connection, you should be willing to pay for it. A better alternative is to just plug in to the network, wherever you happen to be - your home, office, client's office, hotel, airport - once all of them have the capability. And you can always use a modem line. That's not really any different than what I'm able to do today. The biggest problem with that scenario is that in many instances its too slow, not from a bandwidth perspective but in the amount of time it takes to find a network jack, dial into the network, establish a connection, and get the information I need. May not sound like a big deal, but I rarely find the time to do it unless might flight gets delayed or I have a long layover. What I would really like would be for every cell site to manage its own set of IP addresses so that my laptop could 'roam' while I'm traveling the same way my phone does. By this I mean that as soon I got off the plane, the laptop would register with the local wireless network, get assigned a temporary address and I would immediately be in business. Think of it as a two-way pager on steroids :-)