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To: Jim Oravetz who wrote (4264)	8/24/2000 6:21:12 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5390

>> ERICSSON, ARIMA IN DEVELOPMENT, MANUFACTURING OF HANDSETS OUTSOURCING DEAL AFX News Limited 24 August 2000 totaltele.com LM Ericsson AB said it has signed a letter of intent with Taiwan's Arima Computer Corp for development and manufacturing of entry-level mobile phones. "This agreement is an important part of our new entry level strategy (announced in July), which will help us to reduce cost and time to market and thereby increase profitability", said Jan Wareby, executive vice president Ericsson Consumer Products. Arima will be one partner handling development and manufacturing according to Ericsson's specifications of high-volume, value for money mobile phones, so-called "entry-level" products, which constitutes a large portion of the total global market, it said. By this outsourcing programme, Ericsson said it will get access to additional development resources and components, and can allocate its own resources to advanced products for the mobile internet. << - Eric -

To: Jim Oravetz who wrote (4264)	8/29/2000 1:21:47 PM
From: Jim Oravetz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5390

Three Mobile-Phone Makers Agree To Develop Radiation Risk Standard By NICOLE HARRIS and SCOTT HENSLEY Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Wireless companies Nokia Corp., Motorola Inc., and Ericsson Inc., prompted by growing consumer concern about the potential health hazards of cellular phones, are considering ways to disburse more information about cell-phone radiation. The companies, working with governmental bodies around the world, said Monday they are trying to devise a global standard for measuring cell-phone radiation levels -- specifically, to come up with a consistent way to measure specific absorption rates, known as SAR. Mobile-Phone Firms, FDA to Study Effect of Phones on Health of Callers (June 9) SAR is the process of measuring the amount of radio-frequency energy that is absorbed by human tissue. That is a source of growing concern for consumers, who are increasingly voicing worry that constant cell-phone use might actually be bad for users' health. snip<> Jim