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To: LarsA who wrote (16544)	11/14/2001 11:09:37 AM
From: Eric L	of 34857

re: To 3G or not to 3G << Dr No, ... mentioned, as the "delay-date" for 3G in Europe? 2005 or 2007? You know that day in Cannes when QCOM took a dive... >> That was back when he was transitioning "commercial availability" to "commercial viability" and what not. and was laboring under the delusion (or trying to create the illusion) that DoCoMo would launch WCDMA in Japan at maximum 64 kbps downlink and what not, and before he had the audit trail of all this expunged from the Qualcomm server. He was still at it on Analysts Day last week. Meantime Hutchinson (the original IS-95 user in Hong Kong) seems to be on a different schedule than the Dr.: >> Hutchison Whampoa plans late 2002 launch in Europe November 9, 2001 3G Newsroom Hutchison Whampoa plans to launch its third-generation mobile phone services in September 2002 in Britain and Italy and in Hong Kong a month later, Group Managing Director Canning Fok, said on Friday. He told a local Japaness press the business partner of NTT DoCoMo plans to provide various content such as material related to football matches. "Soccer is a big thing" in Britain and Italy, he said. "At this stage, the Hutchison concentration is in the third-generation business. That is the main effort," said Fok. The launch of trial services will be before the summer holiday about July, Fok said. Hutchison 3G UK will handle the British operation and subsidiary H3G Italy S.p.A. the Italian one. The British company is a joint venture with NTT DoCoMo and DoCoMo's Dutch cell phone affiliate KPN Mobile N.V. But Fok did not elaborate on a target number of subscribers after full commercial services begin or what kind of content would be hit services for the group. Fok also expressed Hutchison's intention to maintain business ties with NTT DoCoMo because it is helpful for the Hong Kong group to "share experience" with the Japanese company. << - Eric -

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