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To: 100cfm who wrote (4636)	11/16/2000 7:08:44 AM
From: 100cfm	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 196961

Network-] assisted GPS in the handset is absolutely the most accurate technology out there," says Oliver Valente, Sprint PCS' chief technology officer. It's also "orders of magnitude less expensive than network solutions," Then why is Verizon going with a network based solution, I don't get it. It's the WCDMA argument all over again. Snaptrack's solution is more accurate, more efficient, orders of magnitude cheaper and ready now, network based solutions are none of the above but that's what we are going with. It reminds me of one of my daughter's Cat In A Hat books where everything that doesn't make any sense at all is the norm and everything that does make sense is the abnormal. What gives? Anybody. Verizon using or not using snaptrack is a huge issue since it locks in handset suppliers to using Q chips plus the additional revenue will add to earnings and justify the billion dollar price tag paid for snaptrack.

To: 100cfm who wrote (4636)	11/16/2000 8:35:57 AM
From: Yamakita	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 196961

I think EZWeb has only about a tenth the number of "content" (it seems like stretching it to call it that) sites that docomo has. Ease of use is the same. The biggest difference, that absolutely no one gets, is that you can actually surf the web at 64k, but you can't at 9.6--you can only go to docomo's hokey preapproved milquetoast sites; i-mode is really a fancy pager, but hey, THEY'RE BUYING IT. I don't want i-mode-ized sites, I want the goddam web, thank you. But I am in the distinct minority.