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To: dougjn who wrote (10737)	5/19/1998 9:59:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Sprint has taken time to get to the 2 million mark - still a way to go. With only half the USA covered, there'll be a delay before crowds of happy customers will tote a national footprint phone. But it will hit criticality with handset costs and quality, coverage and per minute pricing probably next year. Then it will take off very fast. It will depend on analog conversions mostly [I guess]. Analoguers will change with a rush when they do. So Sprint might be a good buy as there seems to be a bit of demoralization in the wireless world with cdmaOne still waiting to do a swarming takeover of mobile. Look at Qualcomm's sad share price! What a low, low daily trading volume. Few buyers, few sellers. A big lack of interest, waiting for something to happen. Shareholders not giving their shares away, but buyers not prepared to pay more. So deadlock. I reckon the deadlock will break as the future continues to arrive in the form of Japan's cdmaOne launch, China's continued economic robustness, Korea's refinancing by Qualcomm and all the others who have been buying shares in Korean companies as predicted by your soothsayer Winn last November. Tom Brush theorem on ranting on this thread is applicable. How did it go again Tom? All glib excitement here = price about to fall? Demoralized MightyQ club = price about to zoom? Meanwhile, $ill is holding the line. Hooray for him. I want Windows 98. You supporters of Clinton/Reno and the mad antiprofit, political backhander admirers better sell Qualcomm. Microsoft has a monopoly on Windows 98! What a surprise. Netscape has a monopoly on Netscape. cdmaOne chips will have to, by law, include GSM, analog, TDMA etc. Handsets will have to display all brands involved in electronics and software. Microsoft will have to ship hundreds of browsers, email programs, calculator programs, money moving programs with their software. Eudora will of course have to be included at no charge and put on the desktop. I reckon $ill and Bill played golf. $ill didn't offer Bill money for campaigns etc. $ill said Bill doesn't "drill down" in discussion of stuff. Bill doesn't like geeky $ill anyway and is envious, having to get involved with dumb Whitewater deals which go bad. Bill sics Reno onto $ill to show him who is boss around here!! That's what I reckon it's all about. Envy and base human emotions of greed. So how will the cdmaOne monopoly fare? I guess Qualcomm has been funding Al Gore suitably since he seems quite liking of Qualcomm and has even awarded Irwin a medal of technology. And helped out when the Rostovians kidnapped an employee. Good timing by Qualcomm really, because Bill will be out of office [or maybe even in jail if you consider how many cronies went there already and how determined Starr and co seem to be]. That will leave Al as a shoo-in for the next election which will be when cdmaOne really hits the airwaves. So cdmaOne won't get the $ill treatment. Qualcomm won't have to ship Windows CE with the Qualcomm monopolistic Eudora/PalmPilot/UnwiredPlanet/Globalstar/cdmaOne/Anita[TM] systems. Watch Qualcomm hit $1000 per share! [split of course] Mqurice [just over 250 words] PS: Good grief, I've just realized - Qualcomm must have sooled Gore/Clinton/Reno onto Microsoft so that they can come charging through the gap while he's down. I'm glad my monopoly has friends in high places.