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To: Dexter Lives On who wrote (129883)	6/25/2003 12:15:34 AM
From: Quincy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

"No Art - the consumers will simply go out & buy a SONY handset" Since we are living in reality-land, consumers will ask which handset they can get for free and if we are lucky, which ones have E911. Then, within a week, they will bring back their AT&T/Cingular/Tmobile/SprintPCS/Verizon handset and demand to know why all their calls aren't going through. The providers will spew another bald-faced lie and tell them towers are being built as fast as unlimited nights-n-weekends contracts are being handed out. Who the hell is Sony? "For QUALCOMM, it's what the carriers think that matters." No, its that we don't care what you think that matters.

To: Dexter Lives On who wrote (129883)	6/25/2003 12:40:32 AM
From: Quincy	Respond to of 152472

"That old sinking feeling" "More worrisome for phone companies, a scant 3% made their decision based on the brand and reputation of the provider." fortune.com "They'll also need to team up with smarter, hipper companies (most of which you've never heard of) to create cool voice and data applications. By moving to a network based on the GSM wireless standard, "we can create a platform that invites all application and content providers to write for us," says Lew Chakrin, head of corporate strategy for AT&T Wireless, which was spun off from AT&T earlier this year. " American Idol?

To: Dexter Lives On who wrote (129883)	6/25/2003 2:37:28 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

<For QUALCOMM, it's what the carriers think that matters.> Rob, that's sort of true, but only partly. If only one carrier thinks CDMA will maximize their profits, and they are right, then the others can think what they like and be totally irrelevant. The consumers will walk around them to the carrier which they prefer and if that's the CDMA one, it's goodbye to the rest. If all carriers stick to an anachronistic line, then yes, subscribers just have to make do with what's on offer. But competition tends to lead to somebody trying to get an edge, or EDGE if they are foolish. In other words, it's what the subscribers think which matters, unless it's as in Europe and the government bans CDMA in favour of a nannystate standard way of doing things. Turn people loose and what consumers think is what matters. Hu Jintao Rulz OK, Mqurice