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To: Jim Oravetz who wrote (4290)	9/13/2000 12:48:59 PM
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WAP Will Fuel GSM Growth, Says Sagem By William Emmanuel and Catherine Bremer , Reuters Sep 13, 2000 (4:25 AM) URL: techweb.com PARIS - The head of French electronic equipment group Sagem said he expected growth in demand for WAP to bring the company's share of the global GSM mobile-phone market to 7 percent this year. “We had five percent of the global GSM market last year and we expect to double our GSM sales to 14 million terminals this year. That should increase our market share to at least 7 percent,'' said Sagem chairman Pierre Faurre. “The actual performance between now and year-end will depend on how fast the WAP and GPRS markets take off internationally.” Faurre said Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) terminals, which enable Internet access by mobile phone, and newer and speedier GPRS WAP phones, would account for around four million Sagem mobile phones sold in 2000. “The reason behind Sagem's growth relative to the market is that we are already rolling out WAP phones -- we have already supplied them to four operators worldwide,” Faurre said. “In the second half we expect to sell around four million. The vast majority will be WAP, and GPRS sales are likely to be in hundreds of thousands. But we are capable of delivering more.” Jim