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To: Boplicity who wrote (9121)	4/24/2000 1:52:00 PM
From: JohnG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

Gregory. You have a cup half empty approach to events. QCOM can, with the right partners lead a consortium without supplying all the cash. There are pleanty of western companies with billions of cash. I am sure that there are many Japanese companies that are tired of DOCOMO's heavy handed tactics and that would love to have part of a new telecom venture because it would provide them strategic opportunities. JohnG

To: Boplicity who wrote (9121)	4/24/2000 5:09:00 PM
From: Mike Buckley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13582

Handsets will soon be sold for $20 out of vending machines made out of cardboard ... If the vending machine is made out of cardboard all the phones inside will be stolen. Sorry Greg. Couldn't resist. :) --Mike Buckley

To: Boplicity who wrote (9121)	4/24/2000 5:25:00 PM
From: D.J.Smyth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

Greg "...Handsets will soon be sold for $20 out of vending machines made out of cardboard and be disposable ala cameras..." forward concepts predicted that by 2005 50% of the handsets in Europe will be prepaid disposables. Europe is already about 80% prepaid; next step is the disposable solution prepaid solution as you suggest the prepaid disposable, however, does not account for the third generation handset. prepaid disposables will be principally voice only activated and will probably handle limited data on a very, very limited basis. operators can't make it if they spend $26 billion on 3g auctions (as was done in the UK) and bank their future on disposables. the 3g auctions are about data and selling robust $100-$300 handsets that can handle lots of it.