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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (4918)	5/17/2000 2:08:00 PM
From: tradeyourstocks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

China, GSM vs CDMA Tero, you certainly have a way of twisting the truth around to make you point. If you read the DDI earnings report, they stated that their CDMA business was a strong positive and growing quickly. The losses were due to their analog and Iridium businesses. From the release: "DDI, Japan's third largest telecoms group, said the year loss also reflected the shutting down of analogue cell phone service facilities during an aggressive push into digital technology as part of plans for a merger with two other carriers in October. " "It suffered a 10 billion special loss from quitting Nippon Iridium Corp, the Japanese arm of the now-defunct U.S.-based satellite group Iridium LLC which ended services in a sea of red ink in March." I certainly don't agree with your other point as well. China is not a player in the GSM equipment market. How can they be? The Europeans locked up this market years ago. It makes zero sense for Chinese companies just getting into the wireless business today to focus on GSM. CDMA gives them a new opportunity to compete globally. In fact, if they started building CDMA handsets today they certainly wouldn't be far behind Nokia in that market. You can't say that in the case of GSM. MicroE