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To: gdichaz who wrote (3482)	2/1/2000 9:24:00 AM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 34857

What you're mixing is capacity and actual sales. You can build a network with a capacity for 100 million subs in Antarctica if you choose. That has nothing to do with actually selling the phones. If you really don't see any problems in launching a second-generation digital network in the year 2000 - five to seven years too late - then I can't help you there. It would be different if Unicom had shown any aptitude in actually running a mobile network. They haven't. They've been crushed by China Telecom. Allowing a competing standard to get a half a decade's headstart before launching competition doesn't make any sense from a business perspective. What's equally puzzling is Unicom's heavy GSM infra investment during the last year. This look like is a payday for Unicom - a way to extract billions of dollars from enthusiastic foreign telecom companies in funding. That has little to do with who's going to succeed in the Chinese consumer market. Tero