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To: Alexander Hardin who wrote (2297)	3/24/1998 6:32:00 AM
From: Loft Guy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11568

WCOM may not need to buy a wireless company. With their post MCI resources they could just form nonownership alliances on good terms. Iridium, for instance, is owned by Motorola and they may not want to sell when they want to find a partner. Also, I remember a talk a couple years ago by some MCI engineering executive and he said that wireless requires a huge amount of capital with a fairly high number of competitors. He thought the best strategy was going to be purchasing excess capacity as that looked cheaper (figuring in cost of capital) and lower risk than building or buying a wireless provider. Also, WCOM-MCI may be big enough that they may want to form partnerships with more than one wireless provider. "Get MCI if you use Iridium or Alltel".