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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (17487)	10/31/1998 3:44:00 PM
From: SKIP PAUL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Handsets come and go, models change everyday and there are plenty of choices for both Protocols!! That debate does not belong with that of which is the more cost effective wireless technology. Roaming is also a non issue with dual mode/dual band handsets. The preponderance of wireless calls are local anyway.

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (17487)	11/2/1998 12:11:00 AM
From: Quincy	Respond to of 152472

Motorola who? Tero, not only do you enjoy beating dead horses, you appear to have a particular flair for grinding them up so that you can stomp on the gooey remains. Nice. Sprint is happily aware they won't be standing in the 3G spectrum line at Auction time. Knowing that, how can you claim they regret their decision? What did they do with the GSM system they had set up in NYC? It's showing CDMAOne coverage now. Knowing Nokia is now able to claim a new infastructure replacement product that improves GSM capacity to 10X amps, was Sprint supposed to sit back assume they would eventually make it work? Sprint is able to further improve their CDMAOne capacity and offer 56K or 110Kbps with nothing more than a software upgrade. Is there an EDGE implementation that doesn't involve adding boxes between the Base Station and the phone company? Your argument doesn't make sense. Despite Sprint's preliminary consumer research, "global roaming" didn't turn them into a GSM win. If GSM's performance in the hands of providers and consumers is supposed to be the poster child of the wireless industry, why did Vodaphone enter in the Newbury GSM/CDMAOne overlay trials? Compassion for us poor Americans? Or was it a real concern that GSM has problems and UMTS was going to be too expensive and too late? If DAMPS is such a marvelous system in the hands of AT&T, why does Ericy's lone Brazil DAMPS infastructure contract include a $50mil loan for startup costs on top of vendor financing? Lucent and others didn't list anything like that in their announced CDMAOne contract wins. Considering these are European JV's, can you tell us why Brazil (and the rest of the Western Hemisphere) isn't wall-to-wall GSM by now? Nokia handsets are not drawing customers to our local GSM provider. Despite the efforts of an "independent audit" claiming the best performance for this GSM provider with no specific handset mentioned, #2 runner up (Airtouch) and #3 (Sprint) still share the majority of digital wireless consumers. Battery life is nice. But, it and "organic" apparently isn't doing a darn thing for the local GSM market.