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To: brian h who wrote (4193)	4/16/2000 10:41:00 AM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 34857

Brian - please. I'm imploring you; let's not float to Fantasy Island on this thread. Voda is currently planning to spend tens of billions of dollars on W-CDMA licenses and networks in Europe. Take a look at the British auctions and see what Vodafone feels for W-CDMA. It feels luurve. The Nikkei article specifically referred to an American operator being involved with this cdma2000 in Japan plan. And Vodafone is a British company. The 3G battle is over. And this is finally starting to sink in. This is what would explain the panic move to force a cdma2000 network on Japan, against the will of every Japanese operator. I still don't believe this is actually happening; this move is so dumb it should be a felony. I need to hear this from the companies involved to believe it. The Japanese decision to back W-CDMA is not a sinister plot to defeat a superior technology. They simply don't want cdma2000. Just like the European operators don't want to build IS-95 or cdma2000 - even if the EU commission would beg them to do so. There is no decent international roaming for either IS-95 or cdma2000. And that in itself is lethal. This is a profitability issue. That's why software companies write Windows-compatible programs - because they make money from supporting the dominant standard. There is only one dominant standard in digital mobile telephony. This dictates the 3G market development. The GSM upgrade will become the de facto global 3G standard. Acknowledging that is what DDI is now doing. More power to them. They are thinking about shareholder value. Tero