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To: LarsA who wrote (4656)	11/16/2000 11:13:37 AM
From: mightylakers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196987

are more a function of the number of cells in the area than technology. Coverage wise maybe. Drop calls could be out of handoff problems.

To: LarsA who wrote (4656)	11/16/2000 12:58:30 PM
From: Quincy	Respond to of 196987

AT&T is popular in the D.C. Metro area. My Sprint phone showed 4 bars of signal strength nearly everywhere I went except the subway. Through Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, New Jersey, and Delaware. At this time, the only drawback I experienced is while I had no trouble calling another Sprint phone, I had to try several times to complete a call to a land line around rush hour.

To: LarsA who wrote (4656)	11/16/2000 2:27:20 PM
From: DanD	Respond to of 196987

Dropped calls, in my view, when it comes down to it, are more a function of the number of cells in the area than technology. The level of denile that you are representing in that statement is just staggering to me. Number of cells in an area are directly proportional the the number of people trying to make calls which requires more frequency issues for a TDMA network that are not in a CDMA. In other words it is the Technology. I am almost never dropped in the Washington Baltimore area. I am with Verizon. I work with tons of people that use the AT&T service in this area and they have lots of drops and a poorer quality radio.