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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pcstel who wrote (33160)	3/6/2003 11:03:46 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 196660

As Globalstar found, what people want and what they'll do are two different things: <Network operators want to keep THEIR customers on THEIR networks.> Globalstar wanted to sell their minutes one at a time, as though they were individual diamonds. What they'll do is bundle them up and flog them off to the highest bidder. GSM operators [and Verizon] want to keep their customers on their networks. Unfortunately, people don't own customers, nor do they control them, though there is talk of controlling a sector of the market, or owning it. Customers are notoriously independently minded and like to exert their own mind, not their current supplier's. GSM operators will do what their customers want, not the reverse. Maybe they'll rent NextWave minutes although they prefer to lock customers in a secret garden and let them see only what the GSM operator wants them to see. Verizon has the same disease - they want control instead of just opening a big, fat, cheap pipe to cyberspace. A price war will help clear the air and get things on to a sensible footing, right where subscribers want it. Mqurice