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To: DOUG H who wrote (7070)	2/28/2000 5:10:00 PM
From: slacker711	Respond to of 13582

VOD talks about one-rate world-wide....They are probably pushing hard for CDMA/GSM phones. Wish we had heard more from Qualcomm... Vodafone Plans Single-Rate Calls Worldwide By Aaron Pressman, Reuters 28 February 2000 Top global wireless telecommunications carrier Vodafone AirTouch Plc will take advantage of its wide reach to offer customers a calling plan charging a single rate throughout Europe, and later worldwide, Chief Executive Chris Gent said on Monday. The one-rate Europe plan should be available in the second half of the year, Gent said during a speech at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association show here. "We're going to have two or three," Gent replied when asked about his company's intentions for global one-rate plans. One-rate plans, which let a customer roam widely without paying extra charges, are popular in the United States, where carriers more easily can cover a large geographic footprint. While interested in working with top Internet companies like America Online Inc. and Yahoo Inc. to bring information from the World Wide Web onto wireless phones, Gent said he was wary of being pushed aside by the online giants. "We want our portal which we're building ... being our customers window on the world Internet," Gent said. "We're very happy to do deals with AOL but at one step removed." Under that approach, a customer's wireless Internet access would first connect to a Vodafone site, connecting to sites runs by AOL or others after the initial Web connection. Earlier, AOL announced deals of its own with Sprint PCS and BellSouth Corp. Gent said Vodafone has experienced rapid growth in some countries where other carriers have feared to tread. In Egypt, the carrier attracted 350,000 subscribers since it began offering service in November 1998. In South Africa, the carrier has 1.5 million users, Gent said.