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To: Bernie Diamond who wrote (4838)	2/24/1998 3:46:00 PM
From: Arnie Doolittle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10227

Bernie, MOT has owned the two way radio business since the stone age. They are truly the Cadillac in that arena. Craig McCaw hit all the right buttons with MOT when they booted it with 1st generation iDEN and they now have their act together. Need I say that MOT's current 1st generation CDMA problem has already "been there/done that" by MOT on iDEN? NXTL is beyond that point now. As for MOT as a supplier and the recent baloney on Yahoo about MOT's production capacity, if anyone really cared they'd check into the issue and discover that MOT expanded iDEN plant capacity last year. MOT can and will deliver all the iDEN phone product that NXTL can sell and service in 1998. It's a non-issue. While I'm not 100% sure, my guess is that MOT's CDMA problems are in a different MOT division than iDEN. The MOT iDEN guys compete with the MOT CDMA guys as if they're in different companies; no bad cross-polination of technology problems there. I haven't lost a second's sleep over MOT being NXTL's only supplier of iDEN phones. Arnie