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To: slacker711 who wrote (77516)	7/22/2000 9:15:37 PM
From: Mike Wilhelm	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Slacker, I believe that the merger mandated sales to AWE should have reduced Verizon's sub count by 390,000, not 1.3 million. The San Francisco system (nearly 1m subs) was formerly a partnership between AWE (53%) and Vodafone Airtouch (47%). I doubt that this CellularOne brand TDMA system was part of the merger to form Verizon, so it strikes me as unlikely that any of these subs would have ever been in the Verizon numbers. att.com <<In San Francisco, AT&T Wireless is acquiring the remaining interest it doesn’t already own from Vodafone Airtouch. The system covers a population base exceeding 7 million people, and as of first quarter of 2000 served nearly 1 million subscribers under the CellularOne brand. The San Diego system is being acquired from GTE. The system covers a population of nearly 3 million people and as of March 31, 2000 had more than 200,000 subscribers with the GTE Wireless brand. AT&T Wireless is acquiring the Houston system from PrimeCo PCS. The system covers a population of about 5.7 million people and served 190,000 subscribers at the end of the first quarter with the PrimeCo brand. Prior to today’s announcement, AT&T owned 53 percent of San Francisco and 55 percent of a competing system in Houston.>> Mike