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To: pat mudge who wrote (9512)	2/10/1999 2:02:00 PM
From: zbyslaw owczarczyk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18016

LONDON (Reuters) - British Telecommunications and phone giant AT&T are considering a tie-up between their respective mobile phone operations, The Sunday Times newspaper said. BT Chief Executive Peter Bonfield told the paper that a deal was possible between its Cellnet unit, in which it owns 60 percent and the U.S. long-distance carrier. The two telecom giants already have a $10 billion international alliance in the pipeline, plans for which were announced last July. The alliance, which combines their international assets only, would provide telecom services to multinational corporations. Bonfield said the next step could be a deal giving their mobile phone users reciprocal access in the United States and Europe. ''We haven't got anything agreed yet but it doesn't take a huge leap of faith to figure out that we could do some agreement like that,'' the paper quoted Bonfield as saying. The possibility of a BT-AT&T link-up comes weeks after Britain's Vodafone bid to take over American company AirTouch Communications to create the world's biggest mobile phone company. Earlier Stories AT&T's Plan Offers Simplicity, But Not Much Savings (January 27) AT&T Sets One-Rate Calling For Wireless, Wireline (January 27) AT&T Unveils New Services For Voice, Data Traffic (January 26) AT&T Profits Up Despite Weak Consumer Unit (January 26) AT&T Quarterly Profits And Revenues Rise (January 25)

To: pat mudge who wrote (9512)	2/10/1999 3:01:00 PM
From: Doug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18016

Pat: Thanks for that post on wireless. Europe led by Nokia/Erricson would like to see the smart phone take off and be used as the primary means of communication. Their thin set phones have done extremely well both in Europe and Asia. I do not think thier pop screen telephones will catch on. Our relative costs for Wireless are still too high to accomodate broadband usage. NTL will likely be the first to engineer an ISP cost of 4c/min. As costs come down the use of wireless should increase. However for voluminous data,emails etc ADSL, Cable Modems will still prevail.Currently, ERICY seems to be the best value play on wireless.