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To: puborectalis who wrote (46940)	11/1/1999 10:35:00 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 152472

OT...The Price Is Right, Finally Commentary By Mark Anderson Special to ABCNEWS.com IN ITALY, THEY PAY YOU U.S. cell phone users have long been held back by the practice of ?called party pays? employed by AT&T and others companies. In addition to discouraging mass use in the short term, this has the beneficial effect of charging twice for the same minutes when the caller is also your cellular customer. That was then. Last week, as wireless competition heated up in Italy, Italia Telecom Mobile SpA (Europe?s largest wireless network) announced the unthinkable: The company will pay the user for each incoming call, at the per-minute rate of about 3.7 euro cents (about 3.9 cents U.S.). How does it compute? Italia Telecom Mobile figures that about 80 percent of all such calls originate on its own cell net. So instead of double billing, they are just making slightly less money on those calls. In return, they get to keep their customers as rivals like Mannesman?s Omnitel Pronto Italia and Enel?s Wind come after them with price-cutting scissors. Wireless pricing may never be the same.

To: puborectalis who wrote (46940)	11/1/1999 10:35:00 PM
From: Boplicity	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

old news. Greg

To: puborectalis who wrote (46940)	11/1/1999 10:59:00 PM
From: YlangYlangBreeze	Respond to of 152472

>>WhisperNumber.com currently reports a whisper number of $0.91 per share, slightly higher than the First Call consensus of $0.88.<< You can input your own estimate of Q's earnings at www.whispernumber.com there are only 69 whispers at this point in time. When I first posted this there were 30 "whispers" yet the estimate was still .91, we could have actually changed it. I'm not sure which way I'd go.