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To: Lazlo Pierce who wrote (4524)	5/1/2000 10:30:00 PM
From: Lazlo Pierce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Well, maybe it ain't over till its over. Another news item.... DDI Says It Hasn't Decided on Standard for New Phone Service --From AOl.-- Cooters Tokyo, May 2 (Bloomberg) -- DDI Corp., Japan's No. 2 mobile phone operator, said it is hasn't decided which technology standard to adopt for a new generation of phone services which will be able to connect to the Internet at high speeds. DDI is considering either the W-CDMA standard developed by NTT DoCoMo Inc, Japan's No. 1 mobile operator, Ericsson AB and Nokia OYJ, or the cdma2000 standard developed by Qualcomm Inc. The Nihon Keizai newspaper today said DDI has decided to adopt Qualcomm's technology. DDI Managing Director Ryuichi Kinoshita called the report ``speculation.'' Cellular phone operators worldwide are rushing to develop so- called 3G, or third generation, services, which will be able to send data 200 times faster than the current cell phone technology. Japan will award three licenses to operate the new mobile phone services. DDI must decide which standard to use by May 12 when the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications stops accepting applications. NTT DoCoMo and Japan Telecom Co., Japan's No. 3 mobile phone operator, have said they will use the W-CDMA standard for their 3G services.