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To: Rajala who wrote (84935)	10/26/2000 4:09:58 PM
From: Win-Lose-Draw	Respond to of 152472

Swedes are actually a happy lot...its the miserable Finns who year after year lead the suicide rates Suicide rates in '99... Finland 10.7 Sweden 8.5 <skip a whole bunch of places> USA 4.4 Your beloved Danes come in midway between Finland and Sweden at 9.8; if that level of suicide makes the Swedes and Danes a happy lot, then Americans must be delirously happy. BTW, your contention that the Finns lead the suicide rates is quite unfounded, even when the region under examination is confined to Europe. There are a number of European countries with rates higher than Finland's.

To: Rajala who wrote (84935)	10/27/2000 1:17:21 PM
From: Getch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

The promotion of W-CDMA by NTT DoCoMo with a release date of May, 2001 has been one the most hyped release dates since Windows 95. I will attempt to chronicle this exciting event as it continues to unfold. First of all, the launch date of May, 2001 is a revision of the earlier launch date of March 2001. This first switch/delay was announced this summer, after about six months of hyping the March release. Now on to today's news. Tokyo, Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The following are comments by NTT DoCoMo Chief Executive Keiji Tachikawa on the outlook for high-speed cellular phone service using W-CDMA, or wideband code division multiple access. Tachikawa also spoke on the company's overseas expansion plans. He made his remarks in an interview. On DoCoMo's new high-speed cellular phone service, scheduled to start in May 2001 in Japan: ``We expect profit (from the high-speed cellular phone business) for the first time in the year starting April 2005. ``We want to have 150,000 users by March 2003. Our target will be mainly corporate users at that time. ``Our subscription forecast is modest. It's because our service area is limited (to Tokyo, Kawasaki and Yokohama). ``I know there will be bugs in the service at the beginning. We want to remove all those bugs before we expand the service area.'' And then this from a Reuters story this morning. TOKYO, Oct 27 (Reuters) ... The dominant mobile phone carrier in Japan said earlier this month the number of its subscribers rose 1.8 percent in September from August, boosted largely by its popular "i-mode" Internet access service. O.K., I will need some help with the current number of DoCoMo subscribers, but the number 10 Million is in my head. Using that... 10,000,000 X 1.8% = 180,000 new DoCoMo subscribers in the month of September. Projections from DoCoMo Executive of subscribers to the new and exciting W-CDMA, 150,000 in 22 months from May, 2001 through March, 2003. To be continued...