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To: Dave who wrote (17453)	12/19/2001 6:31:33 PM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

If users in the United States only expect to use their cellular phones to make phone calls, why will AWE and Cingular be late to market? If the mobile market remains limited to voice calls, then ATT and Cingular are going to waste about $8-10 Billion between them. They should have left their networks with TDMA (or GSM/TDMA for Cingular). Of course, I disagree with your premise. The failure of the first PDA (the Newton) didnt stop PDA sales over the last five years....and the failure of WAP over small non-color screens will have little to do with BREW/MMS/JAVA on large color screens. BTW....PCS actually has 2 million users of wireless data. They generate somewhere between $12 million and $24 million a month. Not a success....but not a total failure either. Slacker

To: Dave who wrote (17453)	12/19/2001 8:01:46 PM
From: Ramsey Su	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Dave, once upon a time, there was a company that was the king of wireless. They dominated the pager business and they came up with this thing called the clamshell. "What else do we need?" said the king. "Nothing. Who needs digital when we have analog? We can now all rest and enjoy the good times." Well, you know what happened to that king of wireless. In fact, they just warned again for the 318th time in the last 13 quarters. Now I hear someone doing drum rolls about "make phone calls"........... Here is a question. What has voice phone calls got to do with wireless data applications? Is one intended to replace the other? Ramsey