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To: deeno who wrote (37)	11/14/2000 1:08:09 PM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9255

Who knows - maybe there is a grassy Knoll... or at least some hanging chad. It's not like anyone really knows the full score about both Korea and Brazil. But it does seem that something other than the pure network build-up cost is the biggest influence on operators. I'm not sure the Korean operators would have been so venomous about their objection to the government proposal unless they really thought there is a substantial reason to hang on to W-CDMA. Hutchison and Vodafone in Australia are also curiously insistent on GPRS and W-CDMA considering they operate IS-95 networks in Oz. Both bidded hefty sums for new GSM-1800 licenses in the Australian auction las summer. Both seem insistent on having GPRS and W-CDMA coverage regionally. Tero