To: John Biddle who wrote (4954 ) 11/26/2000 8:42:41 PM From: quidditch Read Replies (2) | Respond to John, point taken re. critical thinking. And I qualified the post by stating that, in effect, we are speculating here, of necessity.ERICY has consistently been ready to sell anything to anyone, ostensibly trying to stay technically neutral. In terms of "kid[ing] yourself", I think you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone on this or the Buy Range board in the six or nine months after the infra sale closed willing to vouch that ERICY was technically neutral, as its public statements consistently tilted to the traditional European formulary to maintain the status quo as long as possible. In Latin America, they had been bidding to sell GSM systems to new carriers in what were rapidly becoming CDMAOne and IS-95 regions. To shed the WCDMA/UMTS cloak represents a step forward where the local politics was not rewarding those who are on the other side of that battle.
