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To: Mats Ericsson who wrote ()	6/21/2000 10:06:00 AM
From: Dennis Roth	of 322

Ericsson sees Bluetooth product mass sales in 2001 telecomclick.com 06/20/00 03:40:57 PM Central Daylight Time STOCKHOLM, June 20 (Reuters) - Swedish telecoms equipment maker Ericsson said on Tuesday that products using Bluetooth technology, which it has helped to develop, would make a breakthrough next year. ``At the end of this year there will be several Bluetooth products on the market but the real boost will come next year when consumers can buy cameras, telephones, video recorders and walkmans equipped with Bluetooth technology,'' Anders Edlund, marketing director of Ericsson's Bluetooth division, told Reuters OO the sidelines of a telecoms conference. Bluetooth is a communications standard developed by Finland's Nokia, Ericsson, Intel, IBM and Toshiba of Japan, allowing electronic gadgets from cameras to printers to communicate by wireless. Ericsson estimates that annual sales in 2005 will be between 500 million and one billion Bluetooth units. ``By that time there will be between one billion and 1.5 billion Bluetooth users,'' Edlund said. Revenues for this market will exceed $1 billion by 2002 and $3 billion by 2005, according to U.S.-based market research organisation In-Stat Group. Edlund said the mass production of Bluetooth semiconductors had been delayed by silicon production. ``The big snag is that silicon production has not kept up with the pace. Bluetooth technology is complicated to make. We also want to make sure that the technology works before we start mass production,'' Edlund said. ¸ 2000 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.

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