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To: The Verve who wrote (2434)	12/24/2000 10:34:31 AM
From: slacker711	of 12236

Deutsche Telekom has signed letters of intent stating infrastructure buildout in 2001 and commercial deployment in 2002. I think it gets even more interesting than that....Tero has talked about subscriber growth guarantees being put into these contracts. Particuarly Nortel.... thestreet.com The real nightmare of the most aggressive vendor-financing deals involves something called subscriber-growth guarantees. The most aggressive 3G vendors have landed deals that actually promise the operator buying the equipment specific subscriber-growth benchmarks. This means that unless an operator hits certain subscriber goals, say 200,000 3G customers by December 2002, the network provider has to pay damages for every subscriber missing from that goal. These contracts also typically provide penalties if networks aren't operational by their promise dates. At least some of these companies truly believe that both infrastructure and handsets will be ready to go prior to IJ's 2003 timetable. They have even put their money where their mouths are.... Slacker

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