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To: slacker711 who wrote (3958)	12/6/1999 10:38:00 AM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 13582

Huge News> Lucent Tech Wins "Major" Supply Deal With China Unicom BEIJING -- Lucent Technologies Inc. (LU) of the U.S. announced Monday it has won a "major" contract to supply China's number two national telecommunications operator equipment for a national data network. Lucent will sell network switches and network management control software to China United Telecommunications, or Unicom, the company said in a news release. The release didn't specify the value of the deal. A company spokeswoman contacted in Hong Kong said it was "one of the most significant data networking contracts for Lucent in the Asia-Pacific region," but also declined to give the size. The equipment will be used to build a high-capacity national data network covering up to 100 Chinese cities, the company said. The new broadband network will enable China Unicom to offer Internet Protocol telephone service as well as on-line video and other multimedia Internet services, it said. The network will also let China Unicom lease data lines and provide local-area network line connection services to business customers, the statement said. China Unicom was set up to compete with former industry monopoly China Telecom. But the underdog's efforts to expand have been thwarted by government regulators, which last year put the legal axe to over $1 billion in Unicom deals with foreign investors. Legal wrangling between China Unicom and its partners over divestiture terms for those deals has delayed an overseas share listing that the company had originally planned for October. Meanwhile, the Chinese government set up a third nationwide telecom company earlier this year. China Netcom Corp. is also building a national broadband Internet network that it hopes will link the country's 15 largest cities. In addition to fledgling data networks, Unicom runs long-distance and mobile telecommunications services. Its projects include a handful of regional mobile networks that use Code Division Multiple Access, or CDMA, technology that Lucent sells under license in China. Lucent said the equipment and software supplied under its new deal will allow China Unicom's new network to function as a trunk line for wireless networks based on both CDMA and the competing GSM, or Global System for Mobile communications, standard. The new products are based on the Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and IP data communications protocols, and can also be used to provide access service for Internet content and service providers, the company said. -By Jason Dean; 8610 6532-6652; jason.dean@dowjones.com Briefing Book for: LU

To: slacker711 who wrote (3958)	12/6/1999 10:42:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13582

*Will HDR be in demand?* Nortel says, 'Yawn'. Although it's not HDR... <Pete Skarzynski, Samsung's vice president of wireless sales and marketing, isn't losing any sleep. He credits the close working relationship between Samsung and Sprint PCS - evidenced by successive contracts valued at $600 million and $500 million - with preparing the manufacturer for larger-than-normal production runs of the SCH-3500. "Typically, there's a slow start when a new product and a new service are launched," he says. "But this just skyrocketed to the top of the sales chart. It has us scrambling."> Where the rubber meets the road and the surf meets the sand, it's all action! Prepare for an HDR parts shortage and a LOT of cats on the screen, rats down the drain and cars zooming up the on-ramp. Mqurice PS: Re, the next post, the parts for HDR are, I suppose, your standard electronic gizzards, whoever makes those. Q! will make the best part, the ideas which go into the ASIC. The plastic housing, screens, batteries, resistor things, solder and all that are the same old things. China will certainly have production facilities installed for assembly! Don't forget Dow 16,000 Feb 2002. I bet some people are starting to think that's not nuts now [nnn btw imho].