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To: quidditch who wrote (3264)	11/15/1999 1:09:00 AM
From: JGoren	Respond to of 13582

Latest on Qcom/softie Korean carrier investment: Message 11928283

To: quidditch who wrote (3264)	11/15/1999 1:21:00 AM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 13582

Monday November 15, 1:00 am Eastern Time (Note: this article is ''in progress''; there will likely be an update soon.) U.S., China sign WTO pact - China News Service BEIJING, Nov 15 (Reuters) - The United States and China signed an agreement on Beijing's entry into the World Trade Organisation on Monday, the semi-official China News Service reported. It said Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky and senior White House aide Gene Sperling attended the signing ceremony for the United States and Foreign Trade Minister Shi Guangsheng and chief WTO negotiator Long Yongtu were there for China. The agreement was signed at the Minstry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation at 1.30 p.m. (0530 GMT) after ''six days of tense, difficult negotiations,'' it said. ''China's WTO entry bid has taken a crucial step,'' it added in a brief report. (Note: this article is ''in progress''; there will likely be an update soon.)

To: quidditch who wrote (3264)	11/15/1999 4:12:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

Steven - a revival indeed, we even had Yahoo! posts referred to here - a kind of cyberghost - from a metric measuring old buddy. But looky there! Charlene and Zhu seem to have signed up to something. Phew! Better cancel all sell orders for the open. That means CDMA in China. Then again, cancel that story. Or not? What? < U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky was on her way to meet Chinese President Jiang Zemin on Monday amid reports that a deal had been finalized on China's entry to the World Trade Organization. U.S. and Chinese officials disputed a report by the semi-official China News Service that a deal had been signed and said talks were still under way. However, a Chinese official source said Barshefsky would meet Jiang at 3 p.m. (0700 GMT). That suggested a deal had been reached. ``Nothing has been signed,' a spokesman for Barshefsky said in Washington, calling the China News Service report premature. 'They're still in meetings.' A spokesman for China's Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation said talks were still going on. ``We don't know where the China News Service report came from,' he told Reuters. Shortly after the China News Service report was issued, Barshefsky and White House economic aide Gene Sperling were seen leaving the U.S. embassy and later entering the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, venue of most of the six days of talks that stretched from the originally scheduled two days. > It seems that there more or less is a deal, but you don't say there is until Jiang Zemin gives it the official seal of approval. Looks like a bit of overenthusiasm somewhere. It sure doesn't look bad for CDMA in China though. With MSFT and Q! buying stock in Korea Telecom Freetel and all the other drama going on, tomorrow should be interesting. Okay Clark, that makes sense to me. Including the price variation needed to stop people hassling busy WWeb Babes. 5 or 10 times prices in sudden peaks in demand could well be needed to keep the freeway flowing. It would be very costly to have applications crashing for want of some bits arriving on time. Resending whole faxes would be a real pain, so people would push the 'do not interrupt just send me the bill' button to ensure a free trajectory for the whole schedule of data in one go. We even had SurferM pop in. Mqurice PS: We didn't go to China, Japan or Australia. By the time several weeks had gone by, we were simply tired of travelling. Winter was setting in with short days, cold, wet and murky. Will have to go to China another time. We took a short cut home from Frankfurt. Which is still quite a long way. Subject 30581 I did a Telecom99 report there I think. General ranting thread - maybe you didn't know that thread was there by the look of it. Did you notice Ramsey went on vacation [so he said anyway] so let's see if he can overcome the Barshefsky effect?

To: quidditch who wrote (3264)	11/15/1999 2:54:00 PM
From: JMD	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 13582

Well hell if it's Old Timer's Week, I'll play: I happen to know that the Evil Thread Warden is on vacation and a few off topic, irrelevant but highly amusing observations will escape sanctions from his Su-ness. Apparently the Q has been adopted by every day-trading dot. comer internet whacko from here to east jeezus. Some guy named Cramer (sp?) has a call-in show spreading stock investment wisdom to the masses. My wife called me as in "get your fanny here quick--they're talking about Qualcomm on the radio"--I arrived to hear some lady saying she'd just sold the ranch to buy the Mighty Q, and I quote, "because she'd heard it was splitting 4 to 1". Folks, this whole ride has been more fun than a sand wedge I holed out from 80 yards, but when idiots like that are throwing bucks at it, buckle your seat belts cuz they'll pull the trigger at the first signs of turbulence. O.K. on to more important things [this is an official techno-SOS]--panic call from Number One daughter now residing in New York and reporting that her Sprint PCS phone doesn't work for crappola which presumably means she's missing important calls at assorted clubs, lounges, bars, and other vital gathering spots for the Gen X\Y ers littered about Manhattan. Who's got the answer? Should we do the Bell Atlantic thing, Air Touch? What works in the Big Apple? Needless to say, this is absolutely a top priority request. Last on Surfer Mike's list: how can we start a write-in campaign to get Gregg Powers back? Word is that some flamer chased him away and now he's toiling in the Yahoo fields. I'm willing to put it all on the line: a vow of no more cornball jokes if he returns. Anybody else willing to answer the call? Best regards to all, SM