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To: gdichaz who wrote (4299)4/20/2000 7:36:00 AM
From: tero kuittinen  Read Replies (1) of 34857
 
Look - the Japan Telecom W-CDMA build-up is starting this summer. One of the contractors is Nokia. DDI went with W-CDMA after it saw both DoCoMo and JT choose it.

Are you suggesting that these three operators will spend billions of dollars on incompatible W-CDMA standards? Of course not. Ericsson and Nokia will very likely be contractors for all three network projects - of course they will build compatible networks.

The very reason why DoCoMo started collaborating with Nokia and Ericsson in 1997 was to ensure that Asia and Europe would get a single 3G standard.

Think about it. 1997. That was when this project was started in a big way. The heavy lifting has already been done. That Hong Kong operator who recently made its W-CDMA decision came to Nokia, sent its executives to Japan to check out Nokia's W-CDMA network and then closed the deal.

Things are happening in Asia. And in America? American journalists are interviewing American telecom analysts about an American 3G standard. And then American investors read about American companies developing cdma2000. It's a fine ol' standard - darn tootin'.

Wake up, Joe Sixpack. Nobody outside North America and possibly Korea is considering cdma2000 an international standard. When it comes to overzealous nationalism, the French dairy farmers have nothing on Forbes feature writers.

Tero
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