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To: Clarksterh who wrote (120578)	6/17/2002 9:43:26 PM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

hi Clark, Oh come now!? You know that the whole point of this discussion is technology (i.e. captial equipment depreciation) and interest expense which are precisely those thing excluded from EBITDA. Nice try at changing the subject. am i changing the subject? let's look at your original question to which i responded: Why can't you acknowledge that from a cash flow situation AWE's is substantially worse than PCS'? so you asked about cash flow and i answered with specific historical EBITDA figures (which showed AWE had higher EBITDA last year than PCS). and then you claimed i changed the subject. are you aware of what the term "cash flow" means? do you know what the relation between "cash flow" and EBITDA is? do you need me to explain these basic concepts to you? just as you would not want to have a technical CDMA debate with somebody who doesn't know the first thing about wireless technology, i don't want to debate financial issues with somebody who doesn't understand that, in the context of service providers, EBITDA MEANS THE SAME THING AS CASH FLOW! Well, I disagree with using EBITDA at all for industries where there is, by definition, a sizable amount of capital investment ongoing. ROFL! do you know why the concept of EBITDA was developed and which types of businesses it was applied to? let me give you a hint: it is the CAPITAL INTENSIVE ONES!