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To: Valueman who wrote (8341)	11/14/1999 2:01:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 29987

Plenty of farmers in New Zealand and Australia don't have cellphone coverage. They'd love to be able to phone the office and have some tea brought out to the hay paddock or fencing gang. About 2% of people in USA are farm workers/farmers [if I remember statistics correctly]. Down from about 80% at the beginning of the century [again, if remembered rightly]. That shows The New Paradigm in action. 2% of 300m [incl Canada more or less] = 6m Then there would be the Winnebago crowd = 1m Then the gun owners who go hunting in the wild = 10m Then the SUV owners who go driving in the wild = 10m Then the rangers who keep an eye on them = 1m How many will pay $1500 and $1.50 per minute and a $50 per month connection fee? Or whatever price plan is offered. I guess we'll know on Monday, 15 November 1999, which is the date of the hard launch, announced by Mr Bernard Schwartz at Telecom99, heard by my own ears. That's tomorrow here. The Websites will be ready to upload. The stores will put up the banners and stands with free trials of the Qualcomm handset. The advertising will appear in vertical magazines. Horizontal ads will appear in horizontal magazines and newspapers. The production line at Qualcomm will be running red hot right now, 24/7/365. The TV ads will go out across the nations [not this one] with gateways. Europe/USA/Canada/Mexico/Brazil, Argentina and maybe China/Korea/Mongolia/Russia. Cool! Can't wait until tomorrow [your time]. Maurice. PS: Okay, maybe the SUV drivers and hunters are the same people. But there are still a lot of them. And that's just in the USA/Canada. Then there are the Eskimos out chasing fish in Hudson Bay.

To: Valueman who wrote (8341)	11/14/1999 12:59:00 PM
From: METMAN	Respond to of 29987

Valueman - the farmers I know live in the Midwest - and cell coverage is pretty good around here .... however, that being said, my blanket comments did not consider all the variation in coverage over the farm belt of the US ... then there are other countries which I didn't consider too carefully. Question might become - will the cell/PCS coverage in the US, at least, be good enough in the near future for 'rural areas' to have a choice between cell or G* and just go with the cheaper alternative? I'm not totally discounting the possibility of G* being used by farmers, just wondering about the demand by and choice of, the farmer him/herself. regards, metman