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To: S100 who wrote (3130)	7/15/2001 2:13:07 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 12232

S100, back on my hobby-horse, the price charged by service providers for 3G services is independent of the prices paid for spectrum. The price which will be charged by the service providers is a function of the crowding and demand for that spectrum, not the spectrum cost. If services are popular and crowds make the spectrum very, very busy, the price of the services will be high. If demand is low and population sparse, 3G prices will be low. If a company paid way too much for spectrum, it won't make their service more expensive. They will simply lose their shirt. They will probably try to charge too much, the same as Globalstar stupidly did, in which case they will fail to get customers. It doesn't matter how much it cost to buy the spectrum, build the network and set up marketing. If subscribers are only prepared to pay a certain amount, prices over that will see the service ignored and the company will go broke. Any lower and the company will go broke [since they won't be able to pay for the loans to buy the overpriced spectrum]. Another company will buy the network and provide service at a price which IS acceptable to subscribers. Mqurice

To: S100 who wrote (3130)	7/15/2001 4:51:35 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12232

Why people need cdma2000. They can call for help from the safety of their car. They can send photos of the problem at hand so emergency services can see what injuries and problems they have to deal with. SnapTrack would give instant location identification instead of simply "I am in a [unintelligible word] phone booth" on "[unintelligible word] road". What does "modaphutta" mean anyway? It seems to describe a lot of things in the conversation; the deer, the dog, the phone booth, the Stop and Go, the road, the tyre iron, ... jevans.xerox-sbc.com This is further proof that Americans are the smartest people on the planet and that the USA is the greatest - you don't get 911 service in the middle of Siberia! Surely this is an Eddie Murphy skit. I had tears rolling down my cheeks...but maybe that's just a weird sense of humour = schadenfreude God bless America, Mq