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To: slacker711 who wrote (3952)	4/4/2000 3:59:00 PM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 34857

Gus - according to reliable sources, only 60-70% of GPRS deals have been announced. The rest are kept secret, because some operators don't want to tip their hands. I assume that the W-CDMA situation is even more mysterical. I have a really hard time believing that the operators would drop 4 billion bucks on a technology that they haven't thoroughly tested... and apparently almost every operator is willing to do so. Since Germany will dole out 6 licenses, the Germany/England combo alone will produce 11 W-CDMA networks. I'm praying that MCI Worldcom will get an UMTS license in England. I really want to read the QCOM threads the day Sprint's parent company announces its W-CDMA order. That should be a blast. I seriously doubt Nokia can ever hit 40%... but it can migrate upmarket. Apparently Ericsson's price erosion topped 25% last year - the Ericsson-Nokia competition is turning into a Chevrolet versus Mercedes SLK combat. Tero