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To: John Stichnoth who wrote (4354)	4/30/1999 6:16:00 PM
From: Valueman	Respond to of 29987

Schwartz has repeatedly given these numbers, actually he has moved the number of handsets available at startup from 45K to 35K in recent months. Trust me, there will not be 300K handsets at startup.

To: John Stichnoth who wrote (4354)	4/30/1999 7:47:00 PM
From: Sawtooth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

John, ValueMan, anyone: Please help me understand, as I was also under the impression that there would be ~300,000 handsets at service startup. It seems to me that (with adequate lead time assumed) design, testing, ramp-up and production of handsets would be one of the most controllable features of the system (vs. launch success, etc.). Why is handset production a problem? Not having enough handsets available immediately at service rollout sounds eerily like one of Irid's major strategic blunders. (?). TIA. ...Tim