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To: Puck who wrote (9625)	3/4/2001 3:13:24 PM
From: gdichaz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

Puck: Chuckle. If you lurk on any Q thread, you would know that LEAP is Leap Wireless, a Qualcomm spinoff. Your main point is well taken, Ericsson is a non performer generally in CDMA infrastructure. (But then of course, so is Nokia which has no license for any CDMA infrastructure - so perhaps a bit more understandable) Perhaps Ericsson did take over the CDMA infrastructure assets of Qualcomm to destroy them. Perhaps. But more likely IMO is that Ericsson is so incompetent that it makes the "shoot itself in the foot company - Motorola" - look good in comparison - and that is a major accomplishment (but not for those unlucky enought to own either). Best. Chaz

To: Puck who wrote (9625)	3/4/2001 4:41:54 PM
From: JohnG	Respond to of 34857

Leap= all you can eat CDMA inside your city for $29.95/mo. Like a mobil WLL except covers the whole city. Due to the extremely high spectrum efficiency of CDMA as compared to GSM it is possible to provide the customers mucho minutes for a low price. Avg use reported to be near 1000 minutes per month. Still this is no where near as customer friendly ad the mobile WLL used in India which will charge less than $0.01/minute for CDMA voice of sub-$100 phones. What does your GSM bill look like. A little higher I suspect.<GGG> JohnG