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To: Mang Cheng who wrote (30833)	5/12/1999 11:39:00 AM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 45548

U S West to Buy Up to $120 Mln of Qualcomm Phones Bloomberg - 5/11 13:54 Denver, May 11 (Bloomberg) -- U S West Inc., which provides wireless phone service to 220,000 customers in five states, said it will buy as much as $120 million worth of Internet-ready digital wireless phones from Qualcomm Inc. over the next year. The phones include Qualcomm's new pdQ smartphone, with 3Com Corp.'s popular Palm Computing electronic personal organizer, and the Thin Phone, which will be available later this month. The phones offer voice, pager, e-mail, voice-mail and data-transfer features, such as wireless Internet access. Next-generation phones from San Diego-based Qualcomm, already U S West's biggest wireless-phone supplier, could help Denver-based U S West better compete against national wireless rivals, such as AT&T Corp., which has more than 10 million customers. U S West offers wireless phone service in Washington, Minnesota, Oregon, Arizona and Colorado. Qualcomm's phones ''complement our entire range of telecommunications solutions, not only our current services, but also the expanded data and Internet technology that will soon be available,'' said Peter Mannetti, president and chief executive of U S West Wireless, in a statement. Separately, U S West said it licensed software from closely held Phone.com Inc., formerly Unwired Planet Inc., which enables wireless phones to receive interactive Internet content, faxes and e-mail. The software platform, called UP.Link, also may reduce U S West's costs by allowing customers to activate their phones, get their billing history and retrieve pricing plan information over the air, cutting down on calls to U S West customer-care centers, Phone.com said. The wireless segment of the telecommunications industry is adding customers at about 20 percent a year. Qualcomm shares, which have quadrupled this year, rose 3 1/2 to 109 1/2. U S West rose 2 1/8 to 57 1/16. 3Com fell 3/16 to 27 7/16. o~~~ O