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echo: cellular
to: CHARLES HUNTER
from: BRIAN LEO
date: 1997-08-19 00:51:00
subject: CLEARNET AND NEXTEL

On 10 Aug 97 02:34am, CHARLES HUNTER wrote to BRIAN LEO:
BL>>Have you heard what you can do with your unit from Clearnet now?
>>You can go into all of the Nextel network and use your Canadian phone there
>>at your own home Canadian rates. You pay in Canadian funds and there is
>>NO roaming fee. If you are in New York and phone New York you pay local
>>rates in Canadian money! If you call Chicago from New York you pay 41 cents
>>per minute in Canadian money. If you get your set from Nextel in the US
>>you pay in US money. Just think. If a person got a phone from a Canadian
>>dealer he could use it all over the US Nextel coverage area at Canadian
>>rates. You would save about 40% depending on the exchange rate at the time.
>>Bell and Cantel don't come close to this kind of value service.
 CH> Good point; but I don't know how good Nextel's coverage is in the US.
 CH> Charles
Have a look at their coverage map at www.nextel.com they cover 50% of the
US now with many of the major cities and they will cover 75% of the
continent in the next 6 to 8 months. There is nothing like the Motorola
handset that we have too. It is 4 functions in one. 
BRIAN LEO
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