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To: cfoe who wrote (30757)	1/6/2003 1:13:44 AM
From: engineer	Respond to of 196649

For those of you who really don't understand about the segmentation in the business these days, let me help a little wiht insight, then perhaps you can understand my comments. there is the good coverage, fair service, decent voice quality, not so many dropped calls type of service that you get from VZ. but you pay more for it. there is the blanket coverage with a terrible technology (analog) and a very poor TDMA technology that is very cheap and attracts alot of low end customers who don;t know much about cellular.....AT&T. Voicestream, Cingular type service. This group tends to cover up poor service overall with low cost, zillion of minutes ( that can;t be used becaue teh network is always busy). The customer is usually swayed by color phones, snappy little features, and LED driven ringers to make up for blocked networks, busy signals, and the such. then there is the I got great coverage for the cells I already have out there, but crappy coverage in the outlying areas that PCS provides. they are going after the middle income group who doesn;t really roam that much but wants calls to go thru in their home town. Each one of these has a completely differnt approach to marketing the service. Some provide it in the form of cost, some in the form of network performance, some in pure salesmanship. I think the survey your all are talking about is skewed alot. If you really knew what type of voice call you were making all the time, then the smoke and mirrors of 60% AT&T analog service for alot of cheap minutes on other peoples networks would really tend to burn you. but, what the heck, most of the US is about CHEAP and not so much about what it is that they get.

To: cfoe who wrote (30757)	1/6/2003 1:30:04 AM
From: pyslent	Respond to of 196649

As a SprintPCS customer, I have also experienced few problems in the Bay Area (also my home area), but I was not so lucky during a recent visit to NYC, where I was plagued with occassional network busy messages on the voice side, and a frequent inability to connect on the data side. Here, on a current trip to los angeles, the voice coverage has been great (mostly on the west side), but an estimated 50% of my attempts to access any Vision (by either PC or phone) fails due to network timeouts. IMO, Vision is currently far too unreliable for business purposes, but luckily, no one will attempt to sue PCS if they are unable to download screensavers and ringers, which seems to be the current marketing thrust <g>.