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To: mightylakers who wrote (4038)	10/27/2000 5:01:20 PM
From: Getch	Respond to of 197258

Exactly, which is why the supposed Korean rush to embrace W-CDMA has been so confusing. It is clearly not for a dominant technology, so why play the game at all? The only thing I have been able to come up with is to lock up international roaming agreements, which are very low incremental cost to the carriers (no new subscriber setup costs) and hugely profitable for the carriers. Do you think China Mobile would have chosen SK Telecom as its roaming partner if it had not declared a preference for W-CDMA? The argument for convergence of standards got much stronger if the report from DoCoMo today of large scale delays in the useful implementation of W-CDMA prove accurate.