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To: Cooters who wrote (110041)	12/30/2001 8:53:20 PM
From: ronho	Respond to of 152472

Verizon "Blew It" in cdma2000 and Sprint a clear winner, reports date: December 30, 2001 Forbes/Andrew Seybold's Wireless Outlook, a monthly investment advisory newsletter focused on publicly traded wireless technology companies, suggested Sprint will emerge as the clear winner in the US 3G race at the end of 2002. After being "smart enough to deploy Qualcomm's cdma2000 1x digital technology -- a technology that will almost double the voice traffic capacity of a cell site and provide 153 kbps wireless data speeds," Verizon has downsized and folded their wireless data unit back into the voice side of the business, a move that is tantamount to walking away from wireless data -- writes Editor Andrew Seybold in an unsparing criticism of the company's move published in "Forbes/Andrew Seybold's Wireless Outlook." With Verizon and Sprint clearly ahead in the race to implement Third Generation (3G) networks, the decision essentially yields the cdma2000 field to Sprint, and "...unless Sprint muffs this opportunity it will emerge at the end of 2002 as the clear winner in the battle for wireless data customers," he writes. While castigating Verizon, Seybold also explores the activities of other players in the 3G arena -- networks, content providers and device manufacturers -- noting two factors that show promise for wireless data: a survey indicating that more than 63 percent of CTOs have budgets for the technology.