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To: PHG who wrote (4672)	2/14/1998 6:21:00 PM
From: Arnie Doolittle	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10227

Phil, I disagree with you 100%. I'm not going to razzle-dazzle either you or Al because you already have made up your minds. Perception is everything in investing and NXTL is no different. My perception is that NXTL will be a mega company making mega buck$ in future years but it is now a startup, albeit high profile. You guys are so busy looking for reasons for NXTL to fail that you can't see what's really happening in wireless in general and NXTL in particular. I don't know but perhaps that's the nature of a short term trading mentality which you two seem to gravitate to. No startup is problem free, including NXTL. But NXTL's problems, which I consider challenges, ALL relate to more rapid growth than originally anticipated. Now, I ask you, who wouldn't give their right arm (I'm left handed), for such a scenario? So they have to hire people faster than expected, so they have to add cell sites faster than expected, so they have to adapt their back room faster than expected, so they have to get their supplier (MOT) to expand capacity faster than expected, so they have to change their buildout plan to concentrate on existing markets faster than expected before going to the hinterlands, so they...well, you get the idea. NXTL, while not problem-free, is aggressively going after their market. Big time. It's too bad you and Al can't see it because by the time you do the stock will be considerably higher. But life is made up of choices and you've made yours. Arnie