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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (3197)	2/28/1999 12:31:00 AM
From: Oliver Schonrock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Maurice "That will put huge pressure on handset production capacity as the producers run 24 hours a day to try to make as much money as they can to produce handsets for the clamouring mobs who will want access to bargain minutes." What about the fixed stations??? If we are planning to do 80% of our business in areas like China where they might be no phones at all then a significant proportion of the phone sold will be for in house installations. I know: To keep the design problem to a minimum QCOM and the others could make a Car-Kit for the travelling salesman out of range that doesn't want to stop, and get-out to make phone call. AND THEN they could make house-kit which looks much the same except that it has a battery and solar panel option. So the business man or woman in China can click his G* phone onto his desk, do business, and then unclick, get into his/her car, click into his/her carkit, do more business, unclick, walk into the client, but wait before he goes into the meeting he makes another call on his/her handset to make sure he's got certain details right! I love it! Lots of minutes and 100% G* minutes!!!!!!!! Oliver

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (3197)	3/3/1999 1:49:00 AM
From: JMD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Thread--please forgive me for that which I am about to do: support Maurice on the p. . . ing issue. Economists categorize certain products as "perishable commodities", and yes, rotten tomatoes are a sub-set of this class but of greater interest here is the special category known as 'time dependent perishable commodities'. Now even the most blighted among you (i.e., those that did not experience the exquisite pleasure of being econ majors) know what TDPC's are even if you think you don't: hotel rooms, rental cars, and tee times come to mind. Think about that $325 green fee at Pebble Beach for the 10:08 tee time: 4 mad golfers are about to fork out $1300 for the sublime privilege of playing the Vatican of golf. But wait! we have 2 last minute no-shows and can't get the word out in time to replace them. Zappo, bongo: $650 just went up in smoke and will NEVER be recovered. [at least the rotten tomatoes can get squished into catsup or some damn thing]. How about that $5000/night penthouse at Don Trump's Plaza Hotel in Noooooo York Citteeeeeee? Not if it goes vacant on Wednesday night sport's fans: Wednesday's cash register will ring up a goose egg and the heck with what the published rack rate says. That rental car sitting in the lot when the last business person has turned it in for the night? Toast. Well that's what will happen to our constellation of birds as they whirl around the planet: for each pass that they're not used, or under used, we ain't never gonna see that dough for that pass. So Maurice says: mark it down to a penny a minute, cuz it's a whole lot better than the alternative which is zippity doo-dah and, unlike our stranded golf course owner, Bernie Schwartz has the means of getting the word out right now, pronto, in real time. Interestingly, the web is coming to the 'rescue' of vendors of TDPC's: surf on over to priceline.com and make a bid on an airline ticket. Heck you may get lucky and only spend $100 to fly down and see Maurice in which case you'll get this diatribe continued in all of its infinite permutations. Ain't life grand? Mike Doyle