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To: q_long who wrote (5966)6/30/2000 3:58:41 PM
From: Gus  Read Replies (1) of 34857
 
Cereal box statistics and timelines from this WSJ.com article:

Ericsson Holds Lead In Wireless Race But Nokia, Nortel Gaining
ragingbull.com

Current GPRS scorecard:
(as of 6/29/2000)

ERICSSON - 44 GPRS contracts; 24% of Europe GPRS contracts
NOKIA - 40 GPRS contracts; 36% of Europe GPRS contracts
NORTEL - 20 GPRS contracts
MOTOROLA - 7 GPRS contracts (16 more under testing)
LUCENT - handful
ALCATEL - handful
SIEMENS - handful

Notes:

Number of GSM carriers worldwide - 373 carriers

Ericsson estimates 2/3 will switch to GPRS this year. With close to 150 contracts already awarded, that leaves about 100 more contracts potentially up for grabs this year, if Ericsson is correct.

Estimated cost of GPRS upgrade - $70m (typical) to $150m (Germany). 249 contracts x $70m - $17.5b; 373 contracts x $70m = $26.1b. 1999 Infrastructure business was about $49b.

On the network side, GPRS represents the first move from circuit-switched to packet-data.


Current WCDMA scorecard:
(as of 6/29/2000)

ERICSSON - 6 WCDMA contracts including Vodaphone, DoCoMo, BT
NOKIA - 4 WCDMA contracts including DoCoMo
NORTEL - 1 (DoCoMo)
MOTOROLA - ?
LUCENT - 1 (DocoMo)
ALCATEL - ?
SIEMENS - ?

Notes:

Nortel expects 60 WCDMA contracts to be issued and spread out over multiple vendors between now and the second quarter of 2001.

Estimated cost of WCDMA upgrade - E1.0 (typical) to E4.0 billion Euros (Germany).

Separately, analysts are estimating that $150 to $300 billion will be spent on 2.5G and 3G infrastructure during the first 5 years of this decade.
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