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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (4656)	5/9/2000 1:41:00 PM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 34857

Tero, << Actually - let us forget this right now. European Union had 100% larger number of mobile phone shipments in 1999 than USA >> Your right. I should have used the term country not market. - Eric -

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (4656)	5/9/2000 4:32:00 PM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 34857

Tero, << I'm doing you a favor here by not including Eastern Europe in Europe >> Thank you. I would hate to have you ALL gang up on this little country that has only 100 million mobile wireless subscribers. <g> Of possible interest to you: Interesting NY Times article today by Bruno Giussani today called "Trying to Gauge, and Bridge, Europe's Gap in Net Access" (Eurobytes column). nytimes.com Excerpt: In Europe there is now a dominant view that we may be lagging behind in Internet usage, but we are ahead on mobile telephony, and we could use this to leapfrog the U.S. This is a naive view," he said. "Europe is way ahead on wireless when you look at penetration rates, but the main reason for this boom, beyond the common GSM [technology] standard, is the success of prepaid cards, which appeal to budget-conscious consumers." "These consumers are not going to pay today's mobile rates to access the Internet," Paltridge added. Note: "He" is Sam Paltridge a communication analyst at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris. Eurobytes is an interesting series. Worth the time it takes to register for the Online NY Times. - Eric -

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (4656)	5/9/2000 11:51:00 PM
From: samim anbarcioglu	Respond to of 34857

>>Actually - let us forget this right now. European Union had 100% larger number of mobile phone shipments in 1999 than USA. And the EU sales grew about 10 percentage points faster. So if you're considering comparing America to Italy or Germany individually - don't. The correct comparison is the EU. As a humanitarian gesture, I'm doing you a favor here by not including Eastern Europe in Europe. Tero, you are absolutely clueless about business, profits, opportunity, shareholder value of my company, You are on this mindless "my phone is bigger than yours" thing. Grow up young man! It is absolutely abhorable to think that your chauvinistic, posts that have nothing whatsoever to do with the future, and well being of NOK, but everything about simply asserting your grammar school nonsense get read by people who look at his board before they make up their minds to buy NOK.

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (4656)	5/10/2000 5:03:00 AM
From: Mika Kukkanen	Respond to of 34857

Tero: I'll just snip a quote from that Poe's article..... "healthy doses of fertilizer" Just love the slant on exclusionist policies, not that any US company was involved in the development of GSM (such as Motorola with the most GSM patents I believe). There is only one persn to blame for the fact that US had fallen behind in the mobile arena - he is the ex head of the FCC - even more funny is that the CDG used to wheel him out every now and again (I wonder on whose behalf he was talking on?). Just love the term "bought", don't you? M