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To: Jim Parkinson who wrote (11536)	4/6/2000 11:39:00 AM
From: Pierre	Respond to of 29987

The two articles posted earlier, one about GM onstar and the other about urban coverage gaps further confirms my belief that the car option should be included in the price of a G* phone. If GM thinks there is enough demand for a glorified "hands-free" kit that they can charge $2500 and expect to introduce the accessory across all model lines, G* should be taking notes. Consider, for <$1500 you have a "hands-free" kit that suffers from none of the urban gap coverage cited earlier. GM certainly believes that people will pay for an additional phone just to have one in their car, and they cite statistics (>50% of all cell calls are completed in an automobile?) to support that. Combine that with the fact that most gap coverage issues are only apparent to the urban user when he's driving, and you have solid reasons GM and the others will (should) be looking at satellite as part of the in car experience. Give consumers true seamless coverage NOW and you may drive GM and others to adopt it earlier. That means free hand-free kits, single sat/cell phone number, 800 and 411 dialing services, and soft hand-off between sat/cell. It is this kind of usage that can and will drive G* beyond the niche market and into the mainstream. Pierre