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To: wonk who wrote (6852)	4/17/2000 10:26:00 AM
From: axial	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

Hi, wireless - Thanks for the clarification. Mike's question caught me completely off guard, because I made the mistake of not checking my statistics before I posted. I had read the 70(seventy) % figure a number of times, and took it for gospel: but do you think I could find it when I needed it? But I think, in the context of my general question, that his point matters: if AMPS is an analogue standard (my understanding), should it even be considered in the cost question of migrating to some future digital standard? I am trying to understand the nuts and bolts of this infrastructure rebuild, and the cost questions that underlie it. The reluctance of the ITU to embrace CDMA as the standard says something, and reverts to Mike's general comments, which I'll characterize like this " Don't forget legacy infrastructure. Never underestimate its importance, especially in the cost equation". True, he was tying it more to the fiber/copper debate, but I feel it's just as relevant here.