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To: Puck who wrote (7835)	10/21/2000 12:45:39 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

"We are here to dominate THIS SPACE" (or maybe it was pack??) was the full sentence, if I remember right. I'm sure those words were not selected on the spot nor by accident, but carfully selected to be used for certain questions, like "what goes up must go down", the "asian,japanese scare",etc. That is, I also noticed that very repeated sentence, and IMO it was a good combination of "read my lips", "no (new) taxes", "evil empire", "coke is it", etc in a situation which might lead to another market crash, as well as understanding that the market should be competitive (we like competition,etc) and not monopolistic. I do not think it is by accident new models are introduced later in USA than in GSM-land, but an understanding that one need to respect domestic markets and their specific problems, like China, Korea, Japan, etc. This should be fairly well "instilled" in finns, as all of Finland could have been bought by the Swedes (hello, you are cute, Ericsson advertisement here is really fun) after WW2 using their weekly allowance.. That is, constructive competition, free markets compared to destructive variations. Ilmarinen. P.S. The standard responce (on both sides) on Nokia-Ericsson has been and probably still is that "the competition is good for both" (remembering the days when most nations had their own more or less monopolitistic telecom operators and manufacturers, and NMT opened up competition within scandinavia, and luckily EU did even more at the start of the 90s, the race for GSM) P.P.S. I really enjoyed the CNBC pack talking about how they: - don't need a new phone - never liked the one they have - mobile phones while playing golf (what about tennis??) - uneducated, low salary,IQ commoners having all these dirty habits of using their phone in public - difficulties carrying the phone around because of their fat middle aged middle manager swollen waist status as well as problems using it with fat fingers (what's Limbaughs best jokes on cellular phones?? any natives who can give a short list??) - etc,etc, even more hilarious things Btw, if anyone feels the urge I could give some french links on the joy of mobile phones among the commoners, Nokia is more popular than most. P.P.P.S. Sorry, I had not expected that much fat idiot talk from the CNBC pack, Rush should dominate that space.