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To: Jack Bridges who wrote (2401)	8/24/2000 12:21:33 PM
From: UncleBeester	Respond to of 197001

Jack, <The trial starts next week and is virtually certain to be a success> Do you know for a fact that the trial is still going forward? There has been much silence since the announcements earlier this year. I agree that "it will take a very short time for the word/demand to spread across Europe." Even more importantly, however, is that once one NMT 450 operator deploys CDMA commercially in Europe, other operators (in other frequencies) will likely follow suit. No one wants to be the first to break away from the culture and tradition. It is similar to the first brick of the Berlin Wall coming down--it took a long time to get to that point, but once the first brick fell, other parts of the wall began falling faster and faster.....

To: Jack Bridges who wrote (2401)	8/24/2000 12:40:53 PM
From: maxgo	Respond to of 197001

Jack, Hungary is not part of the European Union (EU). However, it is quite certain that with the next wave of new members to the EU Hungary will become part of the EU. Of course the new members have to adopt the "aquis communitaire", all the standards (regulation, directives, common policies, decisions by the European Court etc) set earlier in and by the EU. But it is doubtful (= I don´t know) whether the European standard for 3G (UMTS) belongs to it. Secondly, even if that is the case, it is not sure whether that standard forbids to introduce CDMA 2000 (Tero on the Nokia thread claimed that the European carriers are allowed to introduce CDMA as long as one carrier in each country has wCDMA b/c of roaming). Lastly, the entrance of the new member (at least Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic) states won´t happen before 2002 more likely in 2004 or even 2006, as the EU has to find a way to sort out the agriculture (currently the EU spends 46 % of its 100 billion euro budget on agricultural subsidies), social policy (vastly different social standards in east and west Europe) and structural issues (voting rights for smaller countries; restriction of now commonly-used veto-rights) involved with the entrance of new member states. The EU has not managed to sort out these problems in the last five years so it is extremly unlikely that they now manage to do that in 1 1/2 years. After 2002 it is probably too late, because CDMA will be (hopefully) firmly entrenched.

To: Jack Bridges who wrote (2401)	8/24/2000 1:03:53 PM
From: limtex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197001

JB - Hungary and EU. They're not members yet but waiting to join. I doubt they would do anything to upset that and deploying a mobile system in opposition wouldn't be looked on lightly by the EU. Have a look at the ETSI to see if there's anything there. At one time VOD, who I have always thought was quite close to the Q tried to get a trial of cdma in the 400 Mhz area in Gt Britain but I haven't heard much since a brief reference last year. On the other hand if some way the Hungarians get it going then there may well be openings in Czech, Slovak, Croatia, Montenegro, Rumania, Bulgaria, Poland, Ukraine, Baltics, Azerbaijan, Georgia and even Turkey. Israel of course is already cdma. Best regards, L Best regards, L