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To: Arnie Doolittle who wrote (5096)	3/10/1998 11:11:00 PM
From: Frederick Smart	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10227

Pagers Are Dinosaurs....Hello DC! >>Pagers don't cut in if you're trying to control labor costs and deliver prompt service to customers. In today's competitive marketplace time is $$.>> With Nextel's Direct Connect in place, you'd have to be braindead to think of ever, ever going back to using pagers, forever. The level of efficiency and service you enjoy and share with your customers increases by a factor of 2-3 or more, depending on how good you and your people are about responding, etc. With DC, its ALL BUSINESS, period. When its you engage it, both you and the party you are engaging know its the communication is important. And you end up spending seconds versus minutes to communicate - for again, the one-way mode forces each side to focus in on what really is important. Contrast this with pagers - get to a phone, delay, lag, busy phone, secretary picks up - he's on the phone, phone tag, tag, tag - then perhaps re-beep, etc. I had a pager - it was a complete waste of time when you added up all the extra minutes spend leaving messages back and forth. Nextel's DC completely by-passes the public or private switched networks. Its certainly not new - just something old repackaged into a better integrated product. As for Group Conferencing - it is expensive...NOW. But watch this eventually change. They are keeping this under wraps for a reason. i think we will see data links to public and private IP networks first - plus new phones with more features before we see them discount the Group Conferencing feature. Nextel can still get some good revenue mileage out of their digital cellular business. They are showing they can play right up against the best of the PCS competitors. Should be interesting to watch. I think we are poised to break above $30 and go onto new highs above $32. Good luck!

To: Arnie Doolittle who wrote (5096)	3/11/1998 1:11:00 AM
From: Al Gutkin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10227

Arnie: Tell me more about DC. How about your monthly bill. Seriously. Now, not so serious. Arnie: Your wife always knows where to find you, she doesn't need direct connect. You're always in the spare room leaning over your keyboard, surrounded by investment materials, or, you're in the bathroom reading the various handbooks on wireless telephony.<VVVVBG> Al G., I hate the bathroom, thats why I am illiterate, can't read, write, speak. I do know arithmatick.<VBG>