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To: kech who wrote (3677)	11/27/1999 12:03:00 PM
From: JGoren	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

With respect to number one, scrapping handsets: The time was now. Once ATT brings out data, internet in TDMA it is stuck virtually forever. The switch was easy upon offering data, because the customer then needed new phone.

To: kech who wrote (3677)	11/27/1999 8:49:00 PM
From: engineer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

Item 1. If given the choice of an inferior phone which has very crappy voice quality and no data versus one which has data, internet, voice quality and no dropped or blocked calls, the choice would not be a hard sell for many unless they just like the intitials T>D>M>A>. Item 2. I would suspect that if they made the tranistion, they would make it in most large cities fairly quickly, so your drawback would exist for a year at most. then I see three things happening. I see massive buildout of hte CDMA to support the demand and second I see the true dual mode phones come out from Mot and Nokia to support this. And third, I know AT&T won't publish the facts, but I will bet you a beer if and when we meet that more than 60% of the network is already using analog most of the time as the fallback. So raoming in analog is posible today. ITEM 3: As was painfully always shouted at the CDMA crowd, TECHNOLOGY DOESN'T MATTER if it works....So why would the fact that AT&T managed to confuse the whole world for all these years stop them from continuing to confuse them? I would just repackage it into AT&T technology and not talk about any underlying technology excpt that "it works". ITEM4 : buy the 2700 phones that Sprint buys and use the same EXACT overlay. 1900 MHZ CDMA overlay and 800 Mhz analog. Not a tehcnological advancement, but rahter AT&T just using what is there and what is cheap. I see no reason that AT&T does NOT do it, except that some marketing ego is involved here.