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To: Jim Mullens who wrote (39012)	1/29/2004 8:30:00 PM
From: pyslent	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197028

Do you not believe that the typical GSM user in China, India and South America will not desire all that the internet offers? Do you not believe that the rural GSM user in Europe will not desire the data services provided to the city folk with WCDMA handsets, especially VOD subs that will apparently not have EDGE handsets? Would knowing that the more advanced handsets/ services enjoyed by the Koreans and Japanese (KDDI) would also be available to the typical GSM user change your thinking? Would GSM1x handsets of the EV-DO variety change your thinking? Regarding the potential of the GSM/CDMA multimode handset, I would say that anyone tempted by any 1X feature, if offered exclusively by CDMA operators, would sign up directly for a CDMA service rather than pay off-network roaming. Maybe I'm misunderstanding your point, but it seems to be that if I'm an AT&T subscriber, and I am envious of the streaming TV service that Sprint provides, am I not better off becoming a Sprint subscriber rather than buying a multimode handset and roaming onto Sprint's Vision network?