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To: Eric L who wrote (5488)	12/15/2000 7:35:23 AM
From: quartersawyer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197011

Eric L-- "Do you mean 1xRTT?" No- I mean 1x EV, which should see large scale deployment in first half of 2002. As I understand it, GPRS is slow. AWE, for example, will have to compete at 20-30 kbps vs. maybe 150(?). I expect that the DoCoMo concentration on applications will work until the speed limitation renders them obsolete, which looks very short term. Additionally, the expense of building it is high for them, ATT is tapped out and DoCoMo is spending their ex-monopoly profits all over the world. "Possibly" competitive at best. Probably not, if you're conservatively on the lookout for failures. I don't believe anyone will make much money "off of" China. Is DoCoMo going to be able to compete with a tiny corporate subscription for WCDMA against 1X? KDDI will build it, and the applications will certainly follow and be a lot more fun than 10k i-mode, no? There are some long shots too-- any reason why a competitive operator might not want to do 1X in Europe?