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To: JMD who wrote (33735)	6/30/1999 6:58:00 PM
From: JohnG	Respond to of 152472

Breakdown of phone shipments by region, by type from YAHOO JohnG Latin America Cellular/PCS Shipments for 1Q99 Show Significant TechnologyShift WASHINGTON, June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Cellular/PCS handset shipments in Latin America showed a significant technology shift from analog AMPS to digital TDMA over the first three months of 1999, according to quarterly results from Strategis dataBank(TM): World Cellular/PCS Handset Shipments. Latin America's TDMA handset shipments accounted for 63% of Latin America's total shipments for the quarter, while analog accounted for 26%. By contrast, North America is still dominated by analog technology, which represented 53% of total first quarter shipments for the region. Regional Cellular/PCS Handset Shipments by Technology 1/1/99-3/31/99 (in thousands) North America Europe Asia-Pacific Latin America/ Africa/Caribbean Middle East Analog 5,868.6 806.9 611.5 1,068.9 186.7 GSM 741.7 21,996.7 7,970.3 70.3 1,122.3 TDMA 2,303.4 8.1 36.8 2,628.1 161.8 CDMA 2,117.8 0.0 4,421.9 398.6 50.7 PHS 0 0 214 0 0 PDC 0 0 4,040.7 0 0 AMPS/TDMA 0 0 0 2.2 0 AMPS/DAMPS 0 46.3 0 0 0 Total 11,031.5 22,858 17,295.2 4,168.1 1,521.6