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To: Voltaire who wrote (52899)	12/7/1999 12:29:00 PM
From: Rascal	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 152472

I am a new QCOMM investor and new to this thread. (But I know enough to address my questions to Voltaire and hope he and others will reply.) I follow AOL, ATHM and T threads carefully. The quote below is from ATHM thread and some of the posters there agree. Please tell me how to discern this infor. "Wireless is a flawed technology. Best example of it is listening to a local radio station at night in our area. Pops and crackles. Too many generating stations for the band. Seeing cell phone reception decreasing in quality due numerous cell towers in our area. Reminescense of CB radio traffic the in 1970's. Clear when it started, but that silly Convoy song swamped users. Govt. auctioning the frequencies in the early 1990's helped some, but communication interference is fickle animal. For example, Arc welding nearby causes static to my phone/radio. Power lines still cause me to lose connection on the phone/radio. Many want to be free of the cable tether, but users are increasing too rapidly swamping all frequencies. Sometimes I read all the merits of wireless on the technical end and don't understand it even with an engineering degree. Much easier to see and hear the wireless results first hand. Maybe better in the future, but 20 years of listening haven't convinced me." This was followed by: To: Jack Hartmann who wrote (17573) From: ahhaha Monday, December 6, 1999 9:57 PM ET Reply # of 17636 Excellent post. You have launched the bear market in wireless. What you have observed I can explain technically, but people can't understand the technical. They can understand what you have said. It's the tip of the iceberg.