Steven - a revival indeed, we even had Yahoo! posts referred to here - a kind of cyberghost - from a metric measuring old buddy.
But looky there! Charlene and Zhu seem to have signed up to something. Phew! Better cancel all sell orders for the open. That means CDMA in China. Then again, cancel that story. Or not? What? < U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky was on
her way to meet Chinese President Jiang Zemin on Monday amid reports that
a deal had been finalized on China's entry to the World Trade Organization.
U.S. and Chinese officials disputed a report by the semi-official China News
Service that a deal had been signed and said talks were still under way.
However, a Chinese official source said Barshefsky would meet Jiang at 3
p.m. (0700 GMT). That suggested a deal had been reached.
``Nothing has been signed,' a spokesman for Barshefsky said in Washington,
calling the China News Service report premature. 'They're still in meetings.'
A spokesman for China's Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic
Cooperation said talks were still going on.
``We don't know where the China News Service report came from,' he told
Reuters.
Shortly after the China News Service report was issued, Barshefsky and
White House economic aide Gene Sperling were seen leaving the U.S.
embassy and later entering the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic
Cooperation, venue of most of the six days of talks that stretched from the
originally scheduled two days.
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It seems that there more or less is a deal, but you don't say there is until Jiang Zemin gives it the official seal of approval. Looks like a bit of overenthusiasm somewhere. It sure doesn't look bad for CDMA in China though.
With MSFT and Q! buying stock in Korea Telecom Freetel and all the other drama going on, tomorrow should be interesting.
Okay Clark, that makes sense to me. Including the price variation needed to stop people hassling busy WWeb Babes. 5 or 10 times prices in sudden peaks in demand could well be needed to keep the freeway flowing.
It would be very costly to have applications crashing for want of some bits arriving on time. Resending whole faxes would be a real pain, so people would push the 'do not interrupt just send me the bill' button to ensure a free trajectory for the whole schedule of data in one go.
We even had SurferM pop in.
Mqurice
PS: We didn't go to China, Japan or Australia. By the time several weeks had gone by, we were simply tired of travelling. Winter was setting in with short days, cold, wet and murky. Will have to go to China another time. We took a short cut home from Frankfurt. Which is still quite a long way. Subject 30581 I did a Telecom99 report there I think. General ranting thread - maybe you didn't know that thread was there by the look of it. Did you notice Ramsey went on vacation [so he said anyway] so let's see if he can overcome the Barshefsky effect? |
