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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (2665)	11/8/1999 11:39:00 AM
From: Mika Kukkanen	Respond to of 34857

Ha, ha, ha! Of course you are not a fan of phone subsidies! Suggest you move to the UK, so you can pick up these great phones on the market at under half price!! About the total costs. Personally the cost to me now are virtually irrelevant..of course to the impoverished it is still an issue and hence the pre-paid boom. The cheapest deal i have seen is for £11.50 ($17) per month, free phone, free weekend calls (local), evening calls at 2p (3 cents) per minute and the peak rate at 25p (45 cents) per minute. Now for many, if not most, the peak rate is only for emergencies as these people will be at work during these times. The biggest problem is the amount of bloody rate schemes over here. Nearly everyday someone asks for my opinion and it is almost impossible to answer!! Mmmm

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (2665)	11/8/1999 12:11:00 PM
From: Jim Lurgio	Respond to of 34857

Monday November 8 8:39 AM ET Nokia: First 3G Phones May Not Be Global HELSINKI (Reuters) - The first wireless terminals using third generation mobile phone technology may not be global although the standard is being developed for use worldwide, the world's biggest mobile phone maker Nokia said Monday. The various third generation systems will work in similar ways and it will be possible to build phones that work in all systems, but it may not be feasible at first, a senior Nokia executive told a news conference. ``Extra functions could be needed for a European phone to work in the United States,' Nokia Mobile Phones vice president of new systems technologies Heikki Ahava said. He said phones were likely to begin working across platforms when the extra cost would meet the volume-related savings made by building cross-platform terminals for all markets. Telecom equipment makers and operators have agreed on a set of systems that together make up a standard for third generation mobile phones, which will enable much faster transfers than current systems for things such as video images and other multimedia. The most important systems are the European and Asian wideband CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) which is close to the GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) system and the U.S. standard called CDMA 2000. A meeting of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in Helsinki last Friday agreed on a common functionality for the radio transmission part of the system, which Nokia said would enable equipment makers to step up work. ``Now we know (in mobile phone and base station development) that this standard will not be changed,' Ahava said. Friday's agreement was expected after a May ITU meeting in Brazil reached a compromise on the broad outline of the third generation umbrella standard called IMT-2000, which the leading equipment makers called a breakthrough.