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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (3237)	1/13/2000 10:46:00 AM
From: JP Sullivan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Is it your view that NOK is fully committed to developing WCDMA and is not at all open to the possibility of adopting QCOM's competing CDMA 2000 technology for 3G?

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (3237)	1/13/2000 10:55:00 AM
From: Kent Rattey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

"BAM is not a bellwether of the global mobile phone market. It's a slow-growing, old-fashioned, regional, voice-centered mobile operator." Your perceptions aren't reality. When BA merges with GTE, they will have roughly 247,000 employees, 70 billion in revenues, be a Fortune 10 company, a Fortune 5 telecommunications company and certainly a company any telecommunications vendor should "pay attention to". The world is changing....

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (3237)	1/13/2000 10:59:00 AM
From: Valueman	Respond to of 34857

Those hot data rates currently offered in Japan are in the NTT-DoCoMo network. Have you forgotten that? It's the CDMA that's not able to match the 60 kbps speed of the PDC network in Japan - not the other way around. DDI/IDO fired up 64 Kbps data on their CDMA network on January 7th. I won't say anything about HDR until it gets implemented. The IS-95B operators will be at 115K soon, which should be plenty fast for most for some time. Competence is delivering before the competition does. Would paying attention to what's actually happening in the real world right now be all that bad? Exactly my point. On this we agree. Pay attention to Japan. The upgrade to 64K for the CDMA operator was so simple, you didn't even notice!

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (3237)	1/14/2000 8:09:00 AM
From: Jim Lurgio	Respond to of 34857

To date little or nothing is known about what Nokia and IDC are working on. The whole float of IDC shares have trade above 50 dollars now so some big investors see something somewhere? It will be interesting to see if Nokia pulls a rabbit out of the hat via IDC. When Nokia didn't buy the Q's handset division I felt the 3-G project Nokia and IDC were working on must be going well. Eventually we will find out what their work was about and if it's worth while.

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (3237)	1/14/2000 3:57:00 PM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 34857

Tero, << BAM is not a bellweather of the global mobile phone market. It's a slow-growing, old-fashioned, regional, voice-centered mobile operator >> No hold on, Tero. Them's fighting words <g>. I am something of a cheerleader for BAM in wireless going back to their B carrier AMPS days and on into the release of digital service, and Bell Atlantic for landline residential service. I am a very satisfied user of all 3 and have been for years. "Slow growing". Acquiring and melding in NYNEX now GTE, lining up with Vodafone. ????? "Regional". The region and their footprint is bigger than many if not most European countries. Roaming with the other RBOC's from the early days. Right now today, they provide perhaps the most universal primarily digital coverage with analog fallback you can get in the United States. 'T' has great coverage, but as we all have discussed have some capacity problems and with BAM, I don't experience "Old Fashioned". Followed AT&T's digital one rate plans out the door and implementing calling party pays. "Voice-centered" I'll give you, but if you look at the totality of Bell Atlantic, they are data pioneers with CDPD & ISDN. About to implement over the air provisioning with WAP. Remember that despite a data capability in phase one GSM, OTA provisioning of a mobile was first done here in the US at APC Sprint Spectrum (arguably the first DCN's one2one & Orange did it first in DCS-1800 with CPHS). I'm not hear to debate telecommunications in the US v. Europe. Europe got a bit of a jump on us, but the needed to because they were more fragmented than we were on the mobile side and didn't have the copper wire infrastructure we have. I suspect that Chris Gent will fix the fact that I have to now maintain an Omnipoint subscription to travel to Europe with a US subscription. I am hopeful that Nokia is part of that solution. Sorry for the rant but I must defend BAM's honor <g> and we WILL do data. Have a great Nokia day. - Eric -