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To: kech who wrote (3709)	11/28/1999 12:37:00 PM
From: engineer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

I think you miss the point on the roaming and present status of analog. If they suceeded in rolling out the CDMA and getting the heavy users on CDMA, then they would make out better for every city that they rolled out in CDMA, since they would also loose the heavist load on the analog system as well. As far as the business relationships wiht big customers, I would bet that cellularOne would love to have more bandwidth to get more low end users who use 20 minutes a month and pay $20 a month. As for IBM, I am pretty sure they would stand up and cheer if they got to drop CDPD data and got CDMA data as well as the change from TDMA to CDMA. I can't think of a customer except the TDMA equipment vendors who would actually have a problem with more service. As for GM, I have a Mercedes and I am just getting upgraded from analog to digital phones and they are changing out my entire console and handset. I got to choose my new carrier, but I choose to stay with Airtouch for now and wait for both coverage and data in January. The new GM products will have real time data links in them so the older TDMA and analog wihtout data will not fly past 2002 anyway. That is a large customer base to loose for being ego-centric.