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To: limtex who wrote (12808)	6/21/2000 9:16:00 PM
From: jmac	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

You are correct. The silence is incredible. I would hate to sell my Q. I've sat through the 135 point decline. But I am losing confidence in the company's ability to spread CDMA. They're doing something wrong although I can't tell you what that is. They have the best technology out there yet can't get countries who want to lead to grab onto this technology. Don't hold your breath about hearing something from this mnagement team. They aren't frequent speakers.

To: limtex who wrote (12808)	6/21/2000 9:26:00 PM
From: Drew Williams	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

The argument is that I need to have a GSM phone in my new Mercury Sable wagon in case I decide to drive to France. <g> <<I guess the US and Canada are pretty safe and the Q can make a decent business there for a few years. I guess the next thing will be the Europeans trying to put the squeeze on the US automobile manufacturers to install GSM phones in their vehicles and cut out cdma, after that they'll presumable try the same thnig with the Japanese auto companies. > Instead, my wife and I are arguing -- oops, I mean, discussing, because I never argue with her -- whether to get the Audiovox or the cooler but more expensive Motorola with Verizon's One Rate plan.

To: limtex who wrote (12808)	6/21/2000 9:33:00 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

Didn't Q, along with some of its Canadian allies, have something going in Sao Paulo, using wireless local loops to replace the ancient wired phone system? And if the 1800 mhz band works with CDMA as well as GSM, what's to prevent someone from putting together a CDMA network, possibly with a chip that maintains some compatibility with the parts of that wave band used by GSM? Furthermore, what's to prevent investors from setting up a CDMA2000 network now, made compatible with GSM but providing a better valued added service for obtaining Internet access?