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Technology Stocks : Winstar Comm. (WCII) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bernard Levy who wrote (7928)	8/26/1998 3:21:00 PM
From: limtex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12468

Bernard and all -- Over 1.3m shares today!!!!! Short interst reduced a little from last month. ............................................................ Thanks for your informative post. I think it has always been the case in the US that it takes a bit of publicity especially today to get knowledge of a product over to the people. Look at what QCOM did at the Super Bowl and still lots of people didn't even focus on it when it appeared on TV. Of course there is a difference between a product/service and a company. What I am saying is that if it were considered necesary to get WCII services well know across the US then WCII is probably going to have to find a big partner especially if such disemination is to happen relatively quickly. Having said that the question is does it really matter becuae our target market is the small/medium size business and it would be easier to make a publicity dirve in this kind of market than say one for home use across the country. But Bernard you were referring more to the stock market and the fund managers. But our guys do road shows and the like and now that we are in Manhattan some of these people will sooner or later becime real customers and be able to really feel the product with teleconferencing ( on demand as opposed to a big production with an outside organizer of teleconferencing) but it will on doubt take time but maybe given our prime position in Manahattan they could arrange a real live "look what this stuff does" show for all the fund managers right there. Regards, L

To: Bernard Levy who wrote (7928)	8/26/1998 3:25:00 PM
From: joel chess	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12468

Bernard: It is also clear to the management at Winstar that there are a lot of uninformed people regarding what Winstar has to offer. Consequently, Winstar announced yesterday (internal only) that they have hired a public relations firm to get the word out to all--6 full time people whose only job is to educate all who want to be educated and also those who need to be educated. Best, Joel C.

To: Bernard Levy who wrote (7928)	8/26/1998 8:54:00 PM
From: SteveG	Respond to of 12468

Hi Bernard, <..Is how little awareness and understanding of broadband wireless exists beyond threads such as this one...> As I have posted previously, I can definitely confirm this. Immediately after a WCII presentation, many fund managers I spoke with at lunch really didn't have a grasp of what BB fixed wireless is all about. Honestly, many don't clearly yet grasp the concept of bandwidth. One note- seems that there is a circulating (and little understood) reaction by fund managers AGAINST the "bandwidth" bandwagon. Seems the argument is that we have or will have bandwidth overcapacity for awhile. This may well be true IN THE BACKBONE. But our local loop can't make use of the BW we have currently. Try to explain THAT to a fund manager with about a 10 second attention span.