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To: Perry Ganz who wrote (32397)	2/14/2003 9:43:56 AM
From: SKIP PAUL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196972

This fee is roughly equivalent to the average annual income of an industrial worker in India. Indian industrial workers are at or close to par with workers in china but china has 100's of millions of cellphone users. How does Robillard explain that. The monthly payment is about $12 month including finance charges. Affordable to at least 100 million households. There are 35 million wireline users being price gouged by the wireline operator BSNL and MTNL with very poor service who are likely to switch and 10 million cellphone users paying 2 to 5 times more. Robillard does not know what he is talking about in my opinion.

To: Perry Ganz who wrote (32397)	2/14/2003 9:59:18 AM
From: Randall Knight	Respond to of 196972

----- Here is what I found interesting This fee is roughly equivalent to the average annual income of an industrial worker in India. Perry ---- That only states a part of the picture. What percentage of the Indian population is classified as "industrial worker" and what percentage of the Indian population is of a caste well able to afford the three year fee? Let's say 90% of the population currently is classified as "industrial worker." That leaves 10% of the population. What is 10% of one billion? 100 million. I believe there is a little room for WLL growth even considering that the sign up fee is roughly equivalent to the average annual income of an industrial worker in India. Anyone social scientists out there with the actual numbers?