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To: bananawind who wrote (22851)	2/11/1999 11:46:00 AM
From: engineer	Respond to of 152472

I agree with the move. I had always wondered why Sprint didn't offer Franchises like Kentucky Fried chicken so that Mom and Pop operators in outback places couldn't setup a cell and become part of the Sprint buildout. Let the operators buy a franchise for say $250k and then offer then allow them to purchase the cell site and backhaul equipment from Sprint at the Sprint prices, but having the M&P operation get their own financing. This way sprint gets the buildout in Missoula Montana and the coverage and the M&P can build a local business where they know and sell to their friends. Sprint could keep a small licensing fee to keep it ok with the FCC and they both win. the M&P could be covered by the Sprint technical umbrella as well and perhpas pay a fee to maintain the cell site or have a service side of Sprint which does this. the loss is that Sprint may loose the profits from this tiny area. (I pick this area because I know that the cellular operator in the Bitteroot valley is poor and people have wanted digital in there for a long time)

To: bananawind who wrote (22851)	2/13/1999 12:41:00 PM
From: Drew Williams	Respond to of 152472

Here is Sprint's current map for central Florida, including Orlando. sprintpcs.com While certainly not perfect, it looks like they're well on their way. Agree about NIMBY's, though. The Perkiomen Creek runs through my hometown and is only a few hundred yards from my back door. Twice in the ten years I've lived in this house, flooding has been within fifty feet of my back door. (The creek would have had to rise another 12-15 feet beyond its historical all-time high flood stage to get into my basement, though, so I don't worry all that much.) Being down in the valley like this means that the cellular towers covering nearby Norristown and King of Prussia etc. do not reach here. I had cellular service for more than ten years before I could make a call from my driveway. It turns out that Comcast, Bell Atlantic, and Sprint had been trying for years to build towers to serve us, but were prevented by a small group of people who had relocated here when Rhone-Poulonc and Smith-Kline Clinical Laboratories decided to make this their corporate headquarters. The towers did not cosmetically fit with their idea of historical correctness.