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To: Rocket Scientist who wrote (7445)	3/8/2000 6:05:00 PM
From: JMD	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10852

RS--it takes a belly full of guts to go against the crowd, particularly now when a purchase of either G* or LOR requires one to hold one's nose as you mouse click on the buy button. You are correct of course that there were problems with gateways (seven of them were on the fritz for a while). The gateway problem was much more damaging to the launch, IMO, than the availability of handsets, which for some reason got all the publicity. I ain't no fan of Ericsson and think you may be kind to attribute their boot of the GSM handsets solely to the notion that they slowed up the lines when they realized the gateways weren't ready but neither of us will ever know the answer to that one. Anyway, my hat's off to you [and I sure as hell hope you're right]. Regards, Mike Doyle