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To: Eric L who wrote (19751)	4/21/2002 11:39:40 PM
From: kech	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

There is not one single 1xRTT data enabled handset in the Americas today. Not sure what you are driving at here??? Unless you are on the 5105 MSM vs 5100 MSM difference. If that is the case there is a MSM 5100 phone for sale at Spring, the Sanyo 5150 I believe. GAIT handsets are a tremendous boon, to ease the migration for AWS, Cingular, Rogers, and Telecel and all the other squandered cdma opportunities in the spectrum constrained Americas . Apparently transition from TDMA to CDMA must have been harder than I espected since you properly point out that many who could have done it but are not. Though it is not clear how much of AWE's decision was based on the $10 billion from NTT. Cingular also had some GSM properties from SBC and that may also have pushed them toward the GSM direction. There is also the indication that Bell South was not a supporter of the move so it must have been close. Rogers- I don't know about. Still there are some going to CDMA, US Cellular and all indications suggest Nextel. There are also the Bell South Latin American properties as well as many recent LA announcements.

To: Eric L who wrote (19751)	4/22/2002 6:46:16 AM
From: Dave	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

Eric, There is not one single 1xRTT data enabled handset in the Americas today. Why? While I do believe that your question was rhetorical, the reason why there is not one signle 1xRTT data enabled handset in the Americas is because there is little demand from consumers to have high speed wireless data for their mobile phone. I believe that the answer is as simple as that. Remember, it took nearly 15 years for cellular phones, in the US, to gain acceptance. The first time I ever saw a "cell phone" was on the TV show "The Fall Guy" when Lee Majors would ask the mobile operator to dial a number. Around 1991, I saw my first user having a brick of a phone, carrying it around with him in a store. By the mid 1990s, "cellular" (or perhaps "mobile") phones started to gain acceptance since their price came down and plans decreased in cost. Everyone has been talking about mobile data, etc. since the very late 1990s to early 2000. As long as the screens on mobile phones are small, I believe few users will migrate to mobile data. While the "smart phone" has been out for several years, "smart phones" have never had the volume of, say, a Nokia 61xx phone. Personally, I believe mobile data will start to gain acceptance, in the US, in the 2005+ time frame. Its really simple. The majority of users who have a cellular phone view it as...... a phone its as simple as that.