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To: Kent Rattey who wrote (4076)	4/8/2000 1:31:00 PM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

What you're missing is the context. Bloomberg made the interview after the initial leak had taken place in a Japanese newspaper. B. published the story, because they had found independent confirmation to the original leak. This combined with the Nikkei reaction gives three reasons to believe something is going on. Journalism is about independent verification coming from various sources. This is what has happened here. The president later said that DDI "had not made a decision". Hand to your heart - do you really believe that one month before the license application deadline DDI has not made their 3G decision? People can choose what they believe - but reviewing all available information first is a good idea. DDI may crumble under pressure if they're roughed up by companies backing cdma2000. But that does not change the views expressed by DDI employees before they have been silenced. Tero