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To: Eric L who wrote (4893)	5/16/2000 10:12:00 AM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 34857

Eric - the Unicom situation has been playing out for three years now; since 1997. We're now close to the end of the first half of year 2000. It's more or less the right time to ask what the hell is happening - the earlier projection was a 10 million subscriber CDMA network for Unicom by the end of this year. Ramping up GSM, GPRS and WAP orders is a mighty strange way to achieve it. All the action in China is in the coastal provinces. These mobile markets have already been sewn up; what happens now in Outer Mongolia is irrelevant. This "CDMA in China" story belongs to the same class of fables as "7-3 sales ratio for W-CDMA and cdma2000". They keep fading away with every passing day. The article someone posted here about the crucial importance of the official EU decision on 3G standards belongs to this series of fantasy classics. What does the official decision matter, if the carriers like Vodafone have already made up their minds? Tero