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To: ynot who wrote (5722)	10/28/1999 11:28:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

ynot, thanks for your views on nted, and for the unsolicited editorial comment concerning LUMM. Interesting that LUMM should find its way into your reply. Anyway, maybe you will find this more interesting. Over in the Compuserve Telecomm Forum things must be getting real slow. Members there have taken to critiquing the phones and telecomm services which are shown in the background on weekly shows. Here's what one poster observed (among other things appealing, I'm sure) during a recent airing of a Bay Watch episode: ----- Here's an update... last weeks' episode had a heavy Nextel presence. The lifeguards used the things to coordinate the rescue of some people trapped in a partially-underwater cave. Not only that, the chief lifeguard got in a not-so-subtle plug for Direct Connect. On the beach, he told his colleagues something like "Communications is difficult down here -the mountains block the signal. Only line-of-sight works." Speaking of which, my TV reception is pretty bad on that channel, so I couldn't always tell when they were using Nextel and when they were using regular hand-helds, but it appeared that they were even talking to a Coast Guard rescue chopper via the Nextel phones! Regards,