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To: Eric L who wrote (6142)	2/3/2000 12:50:00 AM
From: Ruffian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

<WCDMA, an evolution of the fast growing second generation CDMA popular in the United States and growing in Canada and South America, takes information contained in a signal and spreads it over a wide bandwith.> CANNES, France, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia said on Wednesday it had won the most General Packet Radio Service contracts publicly announced, making it well-placed for the move to third generation networks. Nokia and Swedish rival Ericsson are the leaders in GPRS, which will let mobile phone users stay online for services like Internet and e-mail and pave the way for the video images and multimedia envisaged in the so-called 3G networks. ''Success in GPRS is key for operators who wants to take advantage of Mobile Internet. Therefore it is important for the vendors as well,'' Niklas Savander, Nokia Networks Vice President of Marketing, told Reuters in an interview. Savander claimed Nokia has 18 publicly announced commercial contracts, more than any other vendor. ''Overall the publicly announced contracts in the market are 40, so that would mean that we have approximately 40 percent of the market so far,'' he said. Ericsson, however, has disputed Nokia's GPRS leadership and claimed more than 50 percent of the commercial contracts to date, including deals not yet publicly announced. NOKIA SAYS WCDMA REVENUES TO SHOW IN 2001 Both Nokia and Ericsson are jockeying for leadership in the GPRS market as it is a stepping stone on the way to the broader bandwith of 3G, or the Universal Mobile Telephony System (UMTS). UMTS licences have already been awarded in Japan and Finland, and the technology used will be WCDMA, or Wideband Code Division Multiple Access system. WCDMA, an evolution of the fast growing second generation CDMA popular in the United States and growing in Canada and South America, takes information contained in a signal and spreads it over a wide bandwith. UMTS will open new markets for Nokia Networks in Japan and to some extent the United States. WCDMA sales will have no significant impact on Nokia revenues in 2000, although Savander expects the first contracts to be signed this year. ''We think there will be a big activity for WCDMA this year, with 20 licences awarded in Europe alone,'' he said. ''We will see some impact on revenues in 2001 and from there on it will inrease.'' Nokia claims around a 30 percent share of the digital GSM market, and has its sights on a larger share of the 3G market. ''We would be disappointed if we only maintained our market share. This is a good opportunity for us to increase it,'' Savander said. 12:48 02-02-00 Copyright 2000 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. All active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL.

To: Eric L who wrote (6142)	2/3/2000 8:57:00 AM
From: Valueman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

Thanks for that article Eric. There is one line in there that is prescient: "The first people to do 3G services for cdmaOne will be the likes of Sprint PCS, GTE and IDO. I hope everyone has gathered up the tidbits of recent info to come to a conclusion about 1XRTT. First were the comments out of the conference call about the MSM5000 chips shipping plus the commercial deployment of a 1XRTT system in Korea in July of this year. Previously, there were releases out of Lucent about 3G basestations. Then, a seemingly overlooked PrimeCo press release stating: This new equipment paves the way for the launch of new digital features and services enabled through third-generation CDMA technology.* PrimeCo is owned by BAM and Airtouch. Do you think PrimeCo is forging ahead on its own? Me thinks not. One can expect VodaBAM/GTE to follow suit. Then, not to be outdone, one would expect Sprint PCS to go 1XRTT as quickly as possible to "keep up with the Joneses." Let's not stop there though. Remember that operators will demand a 1XRTT chipset in phones to take advantage of this newly installed infrastructure, and their only supplier is QCOM for the foreseeable future. It's beautiful, isn't it?