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To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (3872)	3/27/2000 8:45:00 AM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

You are mixing second-generation CDMA and advanced, 3G technology. As was pointed out on this thread in 1997, Nokia did not enter the second-generation CDMA network market at all. But they were doing W-CDMA R&D work back in 1995. You are welcome to visit the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper archives here in Finland for abundant public references to Nokia's W-CDMA work dating back half a decade. I was discussing W-CDMA with Nokia engineers back in 1997; a time when most American telecom analysts did not even know that the standard exists. If you really think that second generation and third generation CDMA technologies are similar - keep watching who lands those W-CDMA network deals. They should be going to Lucent, Nortel and Motorola, since these companies are the leading IS-95 network vendors; right? And since Nokia never delivered any IS-95 gear, it should be lagging these three vendors in 3G CDMA deals; right? We'll see about that. Major Spanish, British, Japanese and German W-CDMA orders will be placed within a couple of months. These infra orders will show us who's the leader in 3G technology. Just because Nokia hasn't spent the last five years on a lavish PR offensive to persuade reporters that it is a leader in 3G technology does not mean that the company doesn't have a lead in this area. You see - it's not the analysts and reporters that decide how this market develops. It's the operators. Just ask Japan Telecom, NTT-DoCoMo and SK Telecom. Tero