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To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (4427)	5/23/2000 1:55:00 PM
From: 993racer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5853

I can speak of real world experience...In Metro NY ATT Wireless is well known to be the WORST service...Verizon, Omnipoint and even Sprint are far better. You can be in midtown Manhattan or on the NJ Turnpike with maximum signal level (as per the readout on the phone display) and you cannot place or receive a call...then there are many deadspots too not to mention the mandatory cut off if your conversation is more than 4 minutes. All this after repeated "upgrades" to the ATT network. This is not just my personal experience..Is it the TDMA technology or just a bad netork, I dont know...but ATT Sux ATT only competes on pricing here in NY.

To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (4427)	5/23/2000 9:07:00 PM
From: Dan B.	Respond to of 5853

Mucho Maas, An honest view has to be that this piece is at least as skewed as is George's. From the article we learn that T has "designed our third generation wireless networks to support global CDMA technology where governments have made new wireless spectrum available." Which of course implies royalties to QCOM. And just where will the spectrum be available in the future, everywhere? The writer sees the T EDGE rollout as a year away, he also estimates the middle of the decade as the time when it'll be available to all. Meanwhile, the QCOM services will be offering KBPS some 3 times what EDGE will offer. According to naysayers like T, CDMA was never supposed to be technically possible, never supposed to be successfully rolled out at all, never supposed capable of causing reviewers to state it has better quality, and never supposed to achieve growth rates such as they are seeing. Now T prepares to support it. So you see, the voice George is listening to simply IS in fact "there." Talk about pap! All indications are that Qcom customers will have to make do with the fastest technology available. What does recent QCOM history tell us? Far from simply missing the TDMA movement in the past, they've done quite well on their own during that same time, I think we'd all have to agree. Oh well...battle on. Dan B