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To: data_rox who wrote (12669)	6/20/2000 3:34:00 PM
From: William Hunt	Respond to of 13582

Tuesday June 20, 3:25 pm Eastern Time Former Sprint PCS executive to join Callahan NEW YORK, June 20 (Reuters) - Callahan Associates International LLC, which invests in communications and entertainment industries, said on Tuesday former Sprint PCS Group President Andrew Sukawaty will join the development firm as president and chief operating officer. Sukawaty will be a partner of Callahan and work out of the firm's London offices. Sprint PCS, the wireless telephone arm of Sprint Corp. (NYSE:FON - news), announced on Friday that Sukawaty was leaving. He will act as a consultant to Sprint PCS over the next month. Sukawaty, 44, directed a team that made Sprint PCS (NYSE:PCS - news) the fastest growing wireless provider in the United States over the past two years with more than 7 million customers. Before joining Sprint PCS, Sukawaty was at NTL Limited as chief executive of the British broadcast transmission and communications company. Prior to that, he served as chief operating officer of One2One in the UK, which launched the world's first digital Personal Communications Services (PCS) in 1993. Callahan will be managing partner of one of Europe's largest cable operations encompassing 20 million homes upon completion of various acquisitions. It recently won fixed wireless licenses in Switzerland and Finland. ``In just a few short years, Callahan Associates has established a significant position in the communications, information and entertainment markets. I look forward to working ... to continue this work and meet the operational and execution imperatives,'' Sukawaty said in a prepared statement.

To: data_rox who wrote (12669)	6/20/2000 4:46:00 PM
From: Randall Knight	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

WADR, an "interface" card like Xircom's isn't what Randall was looking for. Actually what I am looking for is a GSM modem card for notebook computers that will allow you to connect to the Internet and use Netscape or IE with speeds at least as fast as a standard dial-up connection. I appreciate the information on the Nokia product and I'm sure it is useful in a limited way, such as using an email client for example. My point is that the market for mobile data isn't going to be driven by any product for a GSM network. Don't talk about GPRS or Edge or any other impractical solution. I fully expect to be able to surf the net on my Powerbook while traveling in the car (as a passenger of course) at speeds double my dial-up connection this year. That is what we will be seeing from Seiko for CDMA networks. And that is why we are seeing companies signing licensing deals with QCOM for such products. I hear a lot of talk about data upgrades on GSM networks. Nothing will happen with data on a GSM network such as I describe above until the GSM networks are converted to CDMA of one flavor or another. My guess is it won't happen soon unless it is MC-CDMA. Picture people in Japan sitting at a park bench surfing the web on their NEC laptops at 144k/sec this year. Those people with their i-Mode phones are going to look silly by comparison. Throw HDR in and its Katy bar the door.