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To: ynot who wrote (402)	9/1/1999 12:21:00 PM
From: Banjo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1080

BVSN has formed a nice base in the mid 90's, will most likely make a new run for above $110 now that it has rested a bit.

To: ynot who wrote (402)	9/1/1999 7:06:00 PM
From: Mark Oliver	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1080

<one interesting thing for me is the recent PR's, Japan+Korea it reminds me of two things, PR's from BVSN and stock penny pumps take care,> Asia is leading the adoption to wireless Internet. It's not a sign of weakness to be developing customers in Japan and Korea. Scandanavia is also a great test center. It seems that PHCM doesn't have as much presence there as would be optimal. Many people and I'm sure that does not include you, think that these types of technologies would be leading here in America, but at the moment they seem to be lagging. Probably they will finish with an incredible rollout when the services are ready. Regards, Mark Europeans to get Internet via mobiles this year By Paul Carrel BERLIN, Aug 27 (Reuters) - European telecommunications companies on Friday said they planned to offer online services over cellular phones later this year, putting the Internet into consumers' pockets. Mobile phone manufacturers are preparing to roll out products that use new technology allowing handheld phones to carry Internet services including pictures, electronic mail, online banking and cyberspace shopping. ''It will be a completely mobile world,'' Rene Obermann, management board member of Deutsche Telekom AG's (quote from Yahoo! UK & Ireland: DTEG.F) T-Mobil unit, told Reuters at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin. ''I think it'll be open to everybody at the end of the day, we're talking four or five years,'' he said. Nokia (NYSE:NOK - news) said it will begin producing state-of-the-art handsets to carry the new services in September with sales beginning in the third quarter in Europe, Asia and the United States. The model will use technology called WAP (wireless application protocol), which enables the fast transfer of Internet data. German telecommunications companies T-Mobil, Viag Interkom and E-Plus (quote from Yahoo! UK & Ireland: RWEG.F)(quote from Yahoo! UK & Ireland: VEBG.F) said they planned to introduce Internet access over mobile phones compatible with WAP technology. Mannesmann Mobilfunk (quote from Yahoo! UK & Ireland: MMNG.F) said it has similar plans. None have said how much the service will cost. Cellular phone manufacturers Siemens AG (quote from Yahoo! UK & Ireland: SIEG.F), Ericsson and Motorola (NYSE:MOT - news) are also planning to offer such advanced mobile phones in a development that comes as the European market for standard cellular services grows dramatically. T-Mobil said on Friday that by the end of the month, some 7.5 million customers would be using its service, a rise of two million customers since the beginning of the year. In the first eight months of 1998, T-Mobil said it had 1.3 million customers. Viag Interkom, a joint venture of German utility Viag (quote from Yahoo! UK & Ireland: VIAG.F) and British Telecommunications Plc (quote from Yahoo! UK & Ireland: BT.L), said it was aiming to increase its number of mobile customers to at least 700,000 by the end of the year compared to some 400,000 currently. But some analysts questioned whether customers would want to reach beyond their standard use of mobile phones and pay for cellular Internet services. ''It all depends on the pricing,'' said Holger Grawe, telecoms analyst at WestLB Panmure in Duesseldorf. ''For customers travelling a lot, it's highly attractive to have (mobile) Internet access. But right now that's just business people or telecoms freaks.'' Telecoms operators said they were planning to use an even more advanced technology, GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), from the third or fourth quarter of next year to provide faster delivery of Internet data. They were confident that by offering services such as news, share prices, weather reports, the latest pop charts and travel information they could attract customers. Mannesmann Mobilfunk chief Juergen von Kuczkowski estimated his network would host around one million users of WAP mobile Internet technology by 2001. ''It will be a surprise-filled package,'' E-Plus chief Klaus Thiemann said of the services to be offered by his company.