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Technology Stocks : Nokia (NOK) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim Lurgio who wrote (7019)	8/29/2000 2:01:41 PM
From: Maverick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

NOK capitalizes on Net growth the period of introduction of the mobile phones more than 20 years ago. At the time it was amazing to be able to speak in a phone no matter where the speaker was located. This revolution in technology created the huge mobile market that we have today. Now Nokia is heading into a very similar opportunity of growth when Internet is coming into mobile phones. To be able to use the net everywhere at any time is the next giant step. What is interesting is that the market hasn't really understood the situation we are located in. Many analysts are talking about lower margins in mobile phones in the near future and this has dropped Nokia's value remarkably recently. The claim is true: the margins of GSM-mobile phones are going to be lower, BUT the mobile phones we have today aren't going to be Nokia's main products in the future. Today's mobiles are history in a couple of years. Internet will be used more wireless than through PCs within 4 years! Mobile phones will transfer live picture in the future as easily as they transfer voice today! With these new features it is hard to see great profit margin erosion. This report is a statement of our views. People relying on information in this report do so at their own risk entirely. boards.fool.com

To: Jim Lurgio who wrote (7019)	9/3/2000 11:48:54 PM
From: Ruffian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Unicom Plans China's Sole Qualcomm-Based Phone Network, OD Says By Eugene Tang Shanghai, Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) -- China Unicom Ltd., the nation's No. 2 mobile phone services operator, plans to run the country's only cellular network that uses a U.S. standard called code-division multiple-access, or CDMA, the Oriental Daily reported. China's Ministry of Information Industry is still deciding whether to let Unicom run its CDMA network on a so-called second- generation narrowband standard or a new CDMA2000 technology that belongs to Qualcomm Inc. of the U.S., the Hong Kong newspaper cited unidentified telephone industry officials as saying. The Chinese government is likely to approve the second- generation CDMAIS-95A standard while it negotiates on patent rights for the newer CDMA2000 technology, which gives mobile users high-speed access to the Internet, the newspaper reported. China's government has yet to clarify whether the nation will build future cellular phone networks using the European Global System for Mobile Communications, or GSM, technology -- the standard for 98 percent of the country's 51.7 million cellular phones -- or use Qualcomm Inc.'s CDMA technology. (Oriental Daily, Sept. 4, Page B2)