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To: slacker711 who wrote (4625)	5/8/2000 4:35:00 PM
From: tero kuittinen	Respond to of 34857

Send in the clowns... Cellnet (the mobile operating arm of BT) is the key Motorola network customer in England (and the anchor of Motorola's global GPRS sales). Orange is the key Nokia customer. Vodafone is the key Ericsson customer. This isn't rocket science - I would expect SG Cowen to be able to sort out the English market. The fact that Nokia has been able to sell base stations to Cellnet does not mean that BT has "generally" used Nokia in the past. Motorola sold the core network and the GPRS system to Cellnet - it's their customer to lose. If Motorola slips with Cellnet, they are out of the English mobile internet market; Ericsson and Nokia are expected to split Vodafone and Orange. Tero