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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (2535)	10/21/1999 8:32:00 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Tero, could it be that the main reason these European markets show such sizzling growth compared to the US is that European mobile rates are a much better bargain compared to the near monopoly prices of the regular telephone service? In the US the pricing of regular telephone service is deflating rapidly and is, I believe, a fraction of what Europeans pay. Kyros

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (2535)	10/21/1999 11:33:00 PM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

You are right again. Good thing for nok that the US market is a "natural disaster"--given nok's strikingly minimalist offerings for the inferior CDMA standard you most rightly call a midget, nok would have a problem if there were any significance to the fact that CDMA now accounts for 47% of US digital market. good thing for nok that they will not have a 7100 series phone in CDMA this year, that would be a waste of time, wouldn't it? one could not imagine, based on nok's difficulties in getting the 6185 up to speed due to the use of superior nok asics as opposed to the inferior ones made by Qualcomm, the originator of the midget standard, that nok just gave up on trying to get the hot new web phone out for spread-spectrum half of the us digital market. much better to write it off as a market that is "less than turkey". best to leave the whole market to the Asians and Company X, who will take over Qualcomm's handset division. i agree with you completely, as always.

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (2535)	10/22/1999 3:50:00 AM
From: brian h	Respond to of 34857

Tero, It is interesting Nokia's quarterly earning report can never get rid of the "Local Standard in USA- CDMA". Why did it not just mention all the rest of the important standards that you over and over again boasted. Hmmm!!! I thought the local standard in USA that Nokia and you were so proud of is AT&T's TDMA stuff. Do not even mention CDMA if it is such a niche business. What say you? Brian H.

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (2535)	10/24/1999 4:55:00 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Tero, Article below of possible interest. Pardon if posted previously GSM SETS THE AGENDA AS DEMAND FOR ROAMING BOOMS 400 MILLION ROAMING CALLS IN ONE MONTH ALONE GENEVA, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ The use of mobile phone roaming -- the term used to describe using a GSM phone away from your home network -- grew at the rate of almost ten per cent per month during the summer months, according to figures released today (Geneva, 10 October) by the GSM Association. During August, GSM network operators handled more than 400 million roaming calls compared to a figure of just 300 million in May. Now the Association is recommending to its members that a Global Roaming Forum should be set up to examine ways of extending and maximising the benefits of roaming for its member operators and their customers. The GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) standard was the first -- and remains the only -- mobile phone technology designed specifically to allow and encourage customers easy and secure roaming between different networks. Born out of European co-operation, the use of the standard has expanded rapidly to global proportions and has now been adopted in 141 countries and is used by almost 350 network operators. "As the world's leading authority on roaming, and the body representing the group with the most experience, we are in a unique position to drive forward the benefits of roaming," said GSM Association Chairman, Michael Stocks. "Already our standard has shown it is flexible enough to be integrated with the Satellite operators, all of whom have joined our Association -- as indeed have the emerging third generation network operators. Now I feel it is important that we examine ways of working with other existing standards for the benefit of mobile phone users everywhere." Roaming between GSM's three frequencies -- 900, 1800 and 1900MHz -- is already commonplace and handset manufacturers have developed phones able to operate at two or even three frequencies. These dual band and tri-band handsets are expected to dominate market sales within the next two years. However, manufacturers have also developed dual and multi-mode handsets: phones which are capable of working on different mobile phone standards, such as GSM, satellite and AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone System -- the analogue standard commonly used in America). The arrival of these phones has opened up the possibility of inter-standard roaming. "Obviously, on behalf of our members, the main thing we wish to promote is GSM roaming," added Stocks. "But we must also look at the benefits of inter-standard roaming. "For example, a GSM operator in the USA who could offer, on a single handset, worldwide GSM roaming at a low cost, coupled with inter-standard roaming in the USA, might find he has significantly increased his marketing edge." "We are not about to give away all the years of hard work and investment by our members in developing a global roaming system. But we will take the lead in promoting and extending the benefits of roaming for all our members and all their customers -- that is the key task facing the Forum," he explained. "After all," Stocks concluded, "GSM is the world's global wireless network of choice -- and approaching 250 million customers say so. " SOURCE GSM Association - Eric -