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To: pcstel who wrote (106894)	10/12/2001 10:25:04 AM
From: bruce_hamilton	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

Pctel, I agree with you that carriers will not be able to offer data mobility at a price to match fixed line prices. However, what I have been pounding the table on for the last year is that CDMA will give the opperators the flexability in capacity increases to give their clients the choice to use these services without robbing their money machine "voice". I may find $75.00 a month just fine for 1000 minutes of fixed line data, or a pay as you go plan. You may not. We have talked at length about QCHAT, telematic related services, position services and music downloads etc. CDMA opperators will be able to experiment with these services and the aggregate revenue of these services may surprise you. I have never subscribed to the "killer application" theory on data. The killer application is CAPACITY. My first mobile cell phone was a 7.8 pound NEC phone and in 1986 it was a novelty and I never thought they would become as common place or as small as the have today. Data was not even on the radar screen and today...... I no longer have two way radios for our trucks all my employees have a cell phone(their own). I think data will take the same course slow at first then you will not be able to do without it. Those DATA services that you use will become indespensable. DATA will be an increasing revenue producer for CDMA opperators. Bruce Hamilton