Hi Tom.

07-May-04 11:58:50, Tom Walker wrote to Andy Ball

 TW> too ->  Here in the U.S. millions (or perhaps billions) of dollars
 TW> are being wasted -> building overlapping, incompatible networks.

 TW> Not necessarily. goverment Regualted Standards are Rarely Better.
 TW> The Competition of the War though typicaly is GOOD for the
 TW> Customer. Look at the Piched Battle between the Beta and VHS tape
 TW> standard/ We the Customer came away Far better off.

The way I heard it Betamax was technically superior to VHS.
how did the customer benefit?

 TW> And so we will in the Cell Phone Wars.

company A sells you a phone that won't work on companmy B's network how's
that good for competition?

if there were overlapping compatible networks the competition would be more
fierce, and the customer would be better off.

 -=> Bye <=-

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