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To: Cooters who wrote (99164)	5/15/2001 11:06:12 AM
From: Jon Koplik	Respond to of 152472

Stupid @$$!?# Nextel website press release section still* has no mention of the Nextel switch to CDMA based system. corporate-ir.net (Maybe Nextel sees this as a way to increase the number of page hits on their website (?)) Jon.

To: Cooters who wrote (99164)	5/15/2001 12:55:41 PM
From: Uncle Frank	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

More on Nextel: investor.cnet.com Nextel CFO Brittain on Network Upgrades, Technology: Comment 5/15/01 9:20 AM Source:Bloomberg News New York, May 15 (Bloomberg) -- Nextel Communications Inc. Chief Financial Officer John Brittain comments on the company's testing of code-division multiple-access, or CDMA, technology for network upgrades. Nextel uses phones and equipment from Motorola Inc. CDMA was developed by Qualcomm Inc. ''We're continuing to move forward with that testing. The technology that Nextel's interested in is 1xRTT technology, which is a migration to CDMA2000 standards. That seems to be the best technology in terms of its efficiency of use of spectrum and for our needs. ''We are continuing to test that technology, we're talking to infrastructure vendors and have gone out recently with (requests for proposals) to get bidding proposals and we're very excited from a long-term perspective in terms of migration to that technology because it gives a significant increase in voice capacity in your network. It gives you the platform for deploying broadband services as well. ''We're giving no indication about deployment at this point in time and as we go through our continued testing our contract proposals, we'll make future announcements as appropriate.'' Nextel may ask the manufacturers to help finance its equipment purchases, Brittain said. In January, analysts Sean Butson and Craig Mallitz at Legg Mason Wood Walker Inc. wrote that they believe Nextel will test '?x'' equipment in 2001, with deployment in 2002 and services commercially available in 2003.