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To: DaveMG who wrote (1468)	2/4/1999 1:20:00 PM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (2) of 34857

It's a risk. But it's a risk the operators are apparently willing to take - partly because they can share that risk with the equipment vendors they trust and are comfortable with. Nobody really knows whether W-CDMA is going to be a commercial success. That's why Nokia is providing also GPRS and HSCSD - solutions that offer the 2,5G benefits and essentially compete with W-CDMA. Nokia is hedging the bets by catering to both operators willing to leap into W-CDMA and operators preferring a more gradual approach. The mere possibility of W-CDMA succeeding is so tempting that most current GSM operators have already signaled their willingness to take the chance. That's why in Finland (population: 5 million) there are 13 applications for a W-CDMA license. Operators from all over the world applied, because they felt they couldn't take the risk of not gaining early W-CDMA expertise and getting an upper hand in future battles. W-CDMA is something for which operators are showing an active interest, while GSM-CDMA overlay is something certain vendors are trying to push on reluctant customers. That's a big difference. Tero

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