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To: Uncle Frank who wrote (933)	4/2/1999 7:03:00 PM
From: Frank Walker	Respond to of 54805

Actually I just got into DISH recently after watching it for months after a friend got a dish system that uses DISH technology about a year ago. DISH stock has been on the climb since announcing strong subscriber growth for many months, but there are other factors that I don't understand yet, re NEWS Corp. The DISH thread over on YAHOO financial pages seems more active than SI, over there CSJRD and raffaele_costi, Graham_NY have some interesting insights into this business. One of them is comparing DISH to AOL, re same # subscribers, same high subscriber growth rate, similar $/month revenue from subscribers. -------------- What with all the interest in QCOM here, will need to investigate QCOM further (thanks for the info and enthusiasm, LindyBill). I notice Nokia stock has been rising since the day of the QCOM/ERICY announcement, so it appears many believe CDMA will not hurt Nokia. ILG