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To: Michael who wrote (30153)	5/18/1999 6:33:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

"...Afterward, while being escorted from the building with his box of personal belongings, James saw Suzanne in a corridor en route to see her boss. She winked and waved, not knowing at the time if she, too, was about to be fired. The Persons say they understand the company's need to downsize -- in fact, Suzanne says Qualcomm should have cut deeper -- and both still have fond memories of the company. They wish, however, someone at Qualcomm would have at least thanked them for their years of service. "I knew it was coming, but I recall thinking to myself while sitting there, 'I shouldn't be feeling this way,' " James says. "It was, 'Turn in your badge, your credit card, your phone, and don't log on to your computer.' " Suzanne echoes: "This was family. They should have been nicer." She recently started to work two days a week as an independent business consultant. James is still looking for a job, though there have been some offers. "I can afford to wait for the right thing," he says. "I can't think of a better time to be looking for another job as a telecom professional in San Diego." ---------------------------------------------------------------- Here's somebody, me, 'from Qualcomm' to thank them for their years of service. Thanks James and Suzanne. As a shareholder, I really appreciate you and your colleagues' efforts over the years. I feel sad seeing the infrastructure division end like that and the waste of talent and effort that goes along with it. James and Suzanne came out to New Zealand [Feb 1996] to persuade Telecom New Zealand to buy cdmaOne. Telecom decided to persevere with TDMA and that has taken Telecom nowhere and now Vodafone with GSM is eating their lunch. Telecom is going to have to act and sooner rather than later. The TDMA network is going nowhere and the analogue service is hopeless. The Vodafone network has just boosted standby times so I don't even bother turning off my handset any more to save battery time. James also worked on Globalstar. He's the one who told me that we wouldn't get cheap Globalstar minutes here because the power supply would need to be saved for the busy regions and if sold cheaply here, it wouldn't be available for higher priced and higher demand areas. So no discount. But now Globalstar is grappling with the concept of selling the minutes at a bit lower prices than they'd originally planned. They are merely dipping a toe in the water. Soon they'll have to take the pricing plunge to really get things moving. Suzanne was the one negotiating the Mauritius WLL contract. Wishing them and the other displaced persons success and thanks for being part of Mighty Q! Maybe they'll be back one day. Mqurice