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To: Clarksterh who wrote (18223)	11/11/1998 12:41:00 PM
From: marginmike	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

As I stated before the price for Startac CDMA without a contract is $499. Here is Press realese on CDMA star tac: Home - Yahoo! - Help [ Business \| US Market \| By Industry \| IPO \| AP \| S&P \| International \| PRNews \| BizWire ] Thursday October 29, 3:31 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release SOURCE: Cellular One Cellular One Kansas/Missouri is First U.S. Carrier To Offer Digital StarTAC(TM) Phone The wait is over ... Kansas City area to have the first dual-mode (CDMA digital & cellular) version of Motorola's award-winning StarTAC phone. KC wireless customers can choose StarTAC phone -- one of the smallest and lightest phones in the world -- only with Cellular One's digital service plans OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- First on your block -- how about first in the World? That's what Kansas City-area wireless phone users can be if they choose the new version of Motorola's wildly-popular StarTAC phone. Cellular One Kansas/Missouri announced today that the company is the first wireless service provider in the U.S. to offer customers the lightweight convenience of Motorola's StarTAC phones in a dual-mode CDMA digital/cellular version. ''This really is a unique occurrence for the Kansas City area,'' said David Davis, vice president and general manager of Cellular One Kansas/Missouri. ''One of the world's technology leaders has chosen this city and Cellular One to introduce a product millions of people will want throughout the country. But starting today, our customers can enjoy the unmatched clarity, features and coverage of the Cellular One digital/analog network in one of the smallest and most convenient wireless phones available.'' ''Motorola is delighted that Cellular One is offering the CDMA digital StarTAC phone to it's Kansas City customers,'' said Paulino R. Barros Jr., vice president and general manager, Market Operations for Motorola's Americas Personal Communications Group. ''The desire for CDMA digital StarTAC phones has been strong and we're excited to provide consumers our newest dual-mode phone along with Cellular One's advanced digital network.'' StarTAC phone features & pricing The StarTAC dual-mode (ST7760 800 MHz CDMA/AMPS) wireless phone is among the smallest and lightest digital phones in the world. The phone incorporates a variety of easy-to-use features that consumers can rely upon for optimal performance in both their professional and personal needs, while still maintaining style, weight, and generous talk times. Weighing as little as 3.7 ounces with its optional slim Li-Ion battery, the StarTAC phone provides talk times up to and between 90 and 250 minutes or digital standby times up to and between 40 and 120 hours. Key phone features include: a full matrix, graphic display providing a variety of viewing options; and variable font sizes so phone numbers appear in large, easy-to- read text while incoming text messages appear in a smaller font so more of the message may be viewed. The ST7760 phone also offers VibraCall(TM) alert, Internal Charger, optional headset capability and supports Caller ID* and Voice Mail* services. Cellular One Kansas/Missouri is offering the dual-mode StarTAC phone with the following digital service plans: Plan StarTAC Price Month to month (no contract) $499.00 1-Year service plan $449.00 2-Year service plan $399.00 About Motorola Motorola (NYSE: MOT - news) is a global leader in advanced electronic systems and services. It liberates the power of technology by creating software-enhanced products that provide integrated customer solutions and Internet access via wireless and satellite communications, as well as computing, networking and automotive electronics. Motorola also provides essential digital building blocks in the form of embedded semiconductors, controls and systems. Sales in 1997 were $29.8 billion. About Cellular One Kansas/Missouri Cellular One is part of the nation's largest wireless communications network. The Kansas and Missouri operations for Cellular One are owned and operated by CMT Partners, Inc., a joint venture between AT&T (NYSE: T - news) and AirTouch Communications. Cellular One provides voice, data and paging services in Kansas City, Wichita, Topeka, Lawrence and St. Joseph. * These functions are network and subscription dependent. Not available in all areas. SOURCE: Cellular One More Quotes and News: AT&T Corp (NYSE:T - news) Motorola Inc (NYSE:MOT - news) Related News Categories: ISDEX, semiconductors, telecom Help Copyright © 1998 PRNewswire. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of PRNewswire content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of PRNewswire. PRNewswire shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. See our Important Disclaimers and Legal Information. Questions or Comments?

To: Clarksterh who wrote (18223)	11/23/1998 9:35:00 PM
From: Drew Williams	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

<< Many people seem to assume that the only prices available are the subsidized prices. This is not true. There are stores that sell unsubsidized phones - i.e. with no contracts. I have no idea who buys them, or why, but they do exist and again the prices I quoted were from such vendors (I'd post them here but the net is really bogged down so I can't get back to the sites). >> Clark, Sorry to take so long to answer your question, but I'm about two hundred Qualcomm posts behind and it is getting worse. (I'm farther behind on Lucent, but I'll probably skip that.) My wife owns her own company, and the company pays for her cellular service with pre-tax dollars (mine, too, until my new employer handed me a phone.) After eleven years, her cellular number (printed on her business cards) is sitting in many hundreds of Rolodex's in metro Philadelphia. It would be dreadfully disruptive and expensive for her to change her phone number and notify all these people. So, she cannot change carriers, at least until she can take her phone number with her, which she could not do the last time we needed a new phone. About two years ago, the handset cord failed on my Radio Shack branded Nokia hardwired car phone (then in its ninth year and third vehicle -- no complaints.) The carrier we used (a no-name reselling Bell Atlantic service at a significant discount to Bell Atlantic) did not offer subsidized phones to existing customers. Both Bell Atlantic and Comcast, the primary carriers around here, offered subsidized phones if I would switch carriers. I decided I wanted an Ericsson AH-310 (no QCOM available then), which I could get for $.01 with a one year Comcast contract or $189.00 without from a discount phone store. I checked into my pattern of use, ran the numbers under my existing carrier against Comcast's programs available at that time, and found my breakeven was about eleven months out. In other words, buying the phone at the higher price was actually less expensive assuming my pattern of use did not change and I stayed with the same carrier for at least eleven months. And that is what I did. Not having been in the market for a while, I do not know whether this would be the best strategy today, but it would not surprise me. PS, since then my wife's Radio Shack branded Nokia hardwired phone (in its tenth year and third vehicle) also died the death of the dead handset cord just about the time I got that new job that came with a phone. Instead of buying her a new phone, I reprogrammed the Ericsson with her number and gave it to her.