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Technology Stocks : Leap Wireless International (LWIN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pcstel who wrote (1174)	1/28/2002 2:40:44 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2737

<No need to reinvent the wheel, IMO.. They have already spent a large sum of money building their "all you can eat" format, and marketing.. Seems kind of wasteful to ditch it and start over trying to compete with Verizon and SprintPCS?> PCSTEL, that assumes that Verizon and Sprint don't undercut Leap in the cities. Then Cricket would be the high-priced service, but without the benefit of roaming. How could Sprint do that you wonder? Easy, increase utilization from 25% to 70%. How could Sprint do that you wonder? Easy, charge according to loading. Make it free when loading is less than 40% [middle of the night] then increase from there to $100 a minute for voice or $20 a megabyte to avoid excessive demand at peak times. Then, even when the WTC is hit, people will be able to get a call through straight away. A communication service needs to work ANY time, not just on a sunny day when everyone is feeling dopey. It's when things are under pressure than character shows. Many hoax calls to 111 are to clear some space so that people can get a connection [so I hear]. Competition hasn't even got warmed up in the wireless communications market. Heck, the technology doesn't even work. Let's see what happens in 5 years. Mqurice

To: pcstel who wrote (1174)	1/28/2002 7:15:02 PM
From: Lance Bredvold	Respond to of 2737

I see part of our communication problem. I had not yet read this post of yours where you are indeed hearing what I was saying. But I was feeling you were not understanding what I said over on Yahoo and answered accordingly. This post is exactly what I expected and I will also agree that you could be right. The point that I may have let my personal needs slip into my assumptions is certainly part of where I could be wrong. And the posts on Yahoo were not wasted as I needed the FDD and TDD tie in plus we never know who else is reading out there. Lance