Subject: [NEXTEL-1] AT&T Wireless to Test Walkie-Talkie Phone This Year (Update1)

From: Marcel <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:35:26 -0500

02/24 17:16
AT&T Wireless to Test Walkie-Talkie Phone This Year
By Dana Cimilluca

New York, Feb. 24
(Bloomberg) -- AT&T
Wireless Services Inc.
will test market a
mobile telephone in
the fourth quarter that
can be used as a
walkie-talkie, a
challenge to Nextel
Communication Inc.'s U.S. dominance of the service.

The test will take place in Seattle, Chief Financial Officer Joseph McCabe said at
a Merrill Lynch conference in New York. Nextel, based in Reston, Virginia, is the
only U.S. company offering the walkie-talkie option.

Mobile-phone companies are racing to match Nextel, which mostly serves
businesses and has the highest average monthly revenue per user at $69.
Redmond, Washington-based AT&T Wireless, the biggest publicly traded U.S.
mobile-phone company, has an average of about $60.

Verizon Wireless Inc., which has the most mobile-phone subscribers in the U.S.,
said two weeks ago it would introduce a similar service this year. AT&T Wireless
could expand its service to other areas next year, McCabe said.

Shares of AT&T Wireless fell 8 cents to $6.10 at 4:15 p.m. in New York Stock
Exchange composite trading. Nextel, the No. 5 U.S. mobile-phone company by
subscribers, rose 2 cents to $13.38 on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?T=marketsquote99_relnews.ht&s=APlqZ0RTMQVQmVCBX
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