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To: P.T.Burnem who wrote (3661)	12/12/1997 5:12:00 PM
From: Paul Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10227

PT, If I am reading your post correctly, you seem to be implying even sized cells across geography. The way I believe it works is you have smaller cells in high population areas to reuse the frequencies more often and larger cells in the unpopulated areas. Some square miles have no Nextel coverage. As you run out of capacity, you split cells and reuse the frequencies in smaller areas. There is a cost to do this but that's how both cellular and Nextel work. There may be physical limits to how small a cell can be but I don't know that anybody has bumped up against that yet. Also, yes or no, are you OJ? Arnie, while no carrier individually covers the entire country, analog cellular does as long as you pay the roaming costs. As for JPM, what is their price target for the end of 1997? I bet its wrong big time regardless of how conservative we may think their assumptions are. Bubba once posted 1997 price targets from analysts but I don't remember what they were. Just my 2 cents.

To: P.T.Burnem who wrote (3661)	12/12/1997 6:24:00 PM
From: Ken Benes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10227

PTB: Earlier I wrote you a note stating that my bills were approximately 150 a month per unit. Guess what, all of that bill is generated during regular business hours, Monday to Friday. If a carrier gave me an additional 150 minutes to use off peak, I would have to use my cell phone at home in the evenings and give my land line a break. Incidentally, I have given nextel units to family members in which we maintain contact by direct connect and guess what they like it so much they thru their PCS phones in the garbage. These personal connections are kept separate from my business connections by programing each phone of my family members to in effect form a network within a network. They cannot speak to any of my employees and my employees cannot speak with them. I can speak with everyone. One last point, since I have introduced the Nextel units to my company, I have conducted business on the beach, out of state, at ball games, during sex, and any other imaginable place. The great thing nobody knows, they think I am in my office breaking my balls trying to make a profit. You could never do this with a PCS radio in every pocket. Ken