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Technology Stocks : Nokia (NOK) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: w molloy who wrote (3560)	2/4/2000 3:12:00 PM
From: Gus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Molly, Molly, trying so hard to be oh so contrary and always ending up being oh so petty. You totally miss the importance of the China Telecom and China Unicom relationship to the Big 5 -- Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson, Lucent, Nortel -- who all have (or are going to have) GSM, CDMAOne, CDMA2000 and WCDMA products and then you turn around and report a tired old rumor about Nokia buying QCOM chipsets. LOL. Jeesh, man, haven't you been following the way Unicom's political supporters keep on trying to prop it up after it invariably gets bloodied by China Telecom? Nokia is going to have products across the board but a fair reading of the various industry SEC filings suggest strongly that Nokia is obviously trying to establish a 'clean' patent position for its WCDMA products before it deals with QCOM again (NOK is already a 2g CDMA licensee). Trying to grow faster than the market in the interim while its braniacs hit the road with its WCDMA products won't hurt either. In case you're still too slow to pick up on this, Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola all have the ability to compete for the infrastructure sale or the initial handset sale or the handset upgrade sale. That's the powerful leverage in their business models that compels them to compete across the board. Do yourself a favor and stop the cheap rumor-mongering to prop up your stock. If you can't, then please come up with a better one that doesn't violate the laws of economics, damn it! LOL