Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Incorporated (QCOM) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LBstocks who wrote (67815)	2/24/2000 1:02:00 AM
From: Jon Koplik	Respond to of 152472

I had the same reaction after reading the article. I laughed, I cried, I threw up ... No. Actually -- I did not ... Jon.

To: LBstocks who wrote (67815)	2/24/2000 1:13:00 AM
From: Ruffian	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

Thursday's Top Stories China postpones network project Compiled by CBS MarketWatch Last Update:12:41 AM ET Feb 24, 2000 BEIJING (CBS.MW) -- Less than a week after China announced it would deploy a new type of mobile communications relying heavily on U.S. technology, the government has postponed the process indefinitely. The delay order, which hasn't been made public, stunned foreign firms, some of which had already bid on the project that would build a national mobile-phone network. Executives at several multinational companies say their bids to supply equipment aren't being accepted. Some speculate the move is a bargaining tactic as the U.S. Congress prepares to debate whether to support China's entry into the World Trade Organization. "We've been told that our discussions will be delayed," said Michael Ricks, president of Ericsson China Co., a subsidiary of Telefon AB L.M. Ericcson (ERICY: news, msgs), the Swedish telecom giant. He said officials from the Chinese operator of the planned network told him the order had come from the government. "There's no commercial reason why that would be, so that leaves political," Ricks said. China's second-biggest phone company, China United Telecommunications Corp., or China Unicom, announced last week that it would build a mobile network using CDMA, or code division multiple access, technology licensed from Qualcomm (QCOM: news, msgs) of the U.S. Many big technology companies had cheered the move, which promised lucrative supply contracts in one of the world's fastest-growing mobile-phone markets. The Wall Street Journal