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To: Victor Lazlo who wrote (116244)	1/26/2001 7:35:23 AM
From: H James Morris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164687

Victor, Netscape had 1 competitor and that was MicroSoft. All I asked you was who's OPWV's competitor(s). If you think Internet access through a cell phone is not going to be the next big thing...I disagree. It appears to me OPWV is the early adopter and I think They're positioned very well. This post has nothing to do with OPWV's stock price. That would be a different conversation. > WASHINGTON -- A federal government auction of airwaves that can be used for Internet-connected wireless phone service is breaking all U.S. records, raising about $17 billion in a sign that the gold rush for communications spectrum shows no signs of abating. Small companies backed by deep-pocketed communications conglomerates are set to win at a Federal Communications Commission auction billions of dollars worth of licenses for spectrum -- the foundation for all wireless communications -- that will be used to fill in gaps in their nationwide networks. The spectrum also will give companies added capacity to handle the hordes of new customers who are signing up at record rates and talking on their phones for longer periods. Wireless phone companies such as AT&T Corp. and Verizon Wireless are looking to turn the wireless phone into more than a simple device used for voice calls. They are rushing to accumulate additional spectrum so phones can evolve into full-fledged mobile Internet gadgets that can be used to shop, receive news alerts, and send e-mail. ``The next information highway is going to be people accessing the Internet through their wireless phones,'' said Travis Larson, a spokesman for the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association, a trade group representing the wireless industry. ``Spectrum is the asphalt on which that highway runs.'' These services are already being offered by some companies, but they're clunky and slow -- problems that additional spectrum could help alleviate.