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To: willkm3 who wrote (31869)	9/19/2000 12:47:26 PM
From: StockHawk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Is AT&T next on the Q's list? Wow, Eric, how did you dig that one out? I did a little looking around on links from the site you posted. It is from AT&T's SERVICE PERFORMANCE ASSURANCE DIVISION. This is what they say they do: "Our studies are designed to evaluate the quality of voice, data, facsimile, video and network reliability. Our testing and monitoring are from the customer perspective, on an end-to-end basis, for both existing and new services..." "WE ARE a group of statisticians, engineers, scientists, technicians and project managers who are highly experienced in the field of communications quality and network performance." "WE HAVE analyzed the performance of AT&T's network and services using precise measurements of both technical parameters and customer opinion...Our analyses are the basis for AT&T's defensible claims of superior quality. Our data are processed with thorough statistical rigor and have withstood the test of competitive litigation. " Based on the above, I don't know how much we can read into the fact that they are testing CDMA, but perhaps it is a first step in the right direction. As an aside, two weeks ago on a Saturday I was in a very crowded Verizon showroom. I was there to finally switch over from my AT&T TDMA phone to a Verizon CDMA. I was with my wife, who already had a Verizon CDMA phone that I had observed to work better first hand. On line in front of us were two men. One was a Verizon customer. The other, his friend, was cancelling his AT&T service to switch to Verizon. We overheard the first friend explain about CDMA and why it was better. That is a tiny sample in just one location, but I can certainly see Armstrong making a bold move if they forsee a risk of losing customers. StockHawk

To: willkm3 who wrote (31869)	9/20/2000 8:49:44 AM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 54805

<< Any thoughts? >> Interesting link, related to AT&T's efforts to participate in the Global Roaming initiative, and promote interoperability with a variety of technologiies. << Is AT&T next on the Q's list? >> Very doubtful. They appear to be fully committed to overhauling their network with GPRS based EDGE, and are taking a leadership role in this endeavor, advancing the standards, and have 4 vendors under contract to implement. They have just implemented an Ericsson platform for global roaming and replaced their pioneering SIM based card with a new one.called AT&T WorldConnect service (also SIM based). attws.com << Key phrase for me was: before service is widely deployed. >> I don't read this as 'T" service. I read it as the service of their roaming partners. - Eric -