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To: verdad who wrote (127242)	2/27/2003 8:55:26 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Verdad, surely you know that most people still, at home, have dial up modem access to cyberspace at 56kbps, which is slower than the 1xRTT low of 60-80 kbps which is available and much slower than peaks of around 150 kbps. Verizon's pricing is the standard greedy telecom charging - they nearly all adopt the early 1980s Apple idea of having a few customers being stung a high price than going for the mass market at reasonable prices, which would actually maximize profits. The marketers in telecom companies have gone to business school which tells them not to compete on price. Competition will eventually get prices to the right level, but it might take some time. It's considered by marketers to be totally uncool to compete on price. That's a shame for CDMA because it means that the marketing departments aren't using the capacity and competitive advantage they have against other air interfaces. Then they do other stupid things like trying to keep subscribers prisoners in a branded cyberspace garden instead of opening the world to cybercerfers by providing a wide pipe at a cheap price and leaving it to everyone to decide where they want to go and what they want to do. I don't agree that anything less than 330 kbps is passable cyberspace access, so although 1xRTT fits the definition, from a subscriber point of view, it's not good enough. We need RoamAD's 802.11th Heaven, or Flarion, or 1xEV-DO to provide fast enough speed. Megabit per second speed is really what's needed. Anything less is still requiring to much patience while stuff downloads. There's a long way to go in delivering cheap voice and cheap and fast cyberspace to mobile subscribers. The fun has just begun, Mqurice