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To: Peter J Hudson who wrote (90274)	12/15/2000 11:24:08 AM
From: Mika Kukkanen	Respond to of 152472

Peter, Yes, AWS did indeed state the migration of TDMA to EDGE. i believe that sometime back they realised that economies of scale were going against that route. The GSM-GPRS route provides an alternate way for data couple with the facts of more consumer choice in handsets (TDMA range were dwindling) and that should they get new spectrum then UMTS/WCDMA will become a viable option (as UMTS incorporates the GSM core). This route would then obviously be fine for DoCoMo's plans. AS for Europe. No I wouldn't say split between standards, but rather operators incorporating both in the near term (due to roll-out costs). The average ROI for GSM was around 7 years, the financial burden now is of course much heavier (although new markets and services are meant to speed the ROI - and even this is being questioned by the media along the lines of "do we really need 3G services"). The general statement was that each market should have at least one UMTS service provider...it is just a question of what UMTS service coverage is stipulated in the license, i.e., coverage of population and what terminology was used, e.g. UMTS versus 3G. Man it is confusing sometimes...unfortunatetly my crystal ball just broke! M