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To: JGoren who wrote (13947)	8/20/1998 10:56:00 AM
From: Gregg Powers	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 152472

JGoren: In defense of Sprint, I would not assume that such poor coverage is a permanent state of affairs. The company put a network skeleton rapidly in place to provide a near-national coverage footprint (and to mitigate expensive analog roaming). It took an incredible amount of economic and human resources to affect this deployment, so coverage holes should not be surprising. Clearly, the company will steadily improve its network over time. As I said before, the Sprint system is perfectly adequate for low-end, price-sensitive retail customers, but will take much more refinement before it is suitable for high-end business customers. If you think about it, this strategy is in direct opposition to the 800mhz carriers which are transitioning their high-end customers to digital. Given this context, Sprint's strategy of pursuing a different, less demanding customer constituency with a price-based strategy does not seem illogical. Best regards, Gregg Best regards, Gregg