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To: kech who wrote (7170)	2/10/2001 10:39:41 AM
From: Scott Zion	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196772

3G: only the strongest will survive date: 10th February 01, source by: commentwire.com Catalyst: Market predictions for 3G networks are getting gloomier and gloomier. Observers agree that 3G networks will have a much slower rollout and uptake than originally expected. The delays wouldn't matter so much but for operators' enormous debts - and hence the crippling interest payments they must make. Smaller companies will have trouble raising the cash to keep going, leaving firms like Vodafone and Orange to dominate the market. Optimism about mobile communications now seems to have reached an all-time low. Following the disastrous French license contest last week, which only attracted two bidders, we now see France Telecom slashing the Orange IPO price and BT trying strategy after strategy to keep its investors satisfied, with limited success. For a long time, the stock markets were in love with all things mobile. But after the 3G license auctions in Britain and Germany last year, almost overnight, market observers and shareholders got cold feet over the unprecedented investment in licenses and infrastructure. And as WAP failed to take off in a big way, doubts have risen as to whether the market will really lap up GPRS and UMTS/3G. Market observers now predict unanimously that 3G's start will be delayed, that its development into a mass market will be slower than anticipated and that it will see much lower turnover than mobile operators calculated. Admittedly, delayed rollout in itself doesn't herald disaster: GSM was months late nine years ago. The trouble is that the phenomenal debt that mobile operators have had to take on for licenses and infrastructure means that some are paying $100 million each month in interest. Such costs further delay break-even points that in any event lie far in the future. This will increasingly jeopardize the multi-billion dollar credits required for the construction of 3G networks. Upbeat noises from mobile operators, then, can be primarily attributed to forced optimism in the face of the string of IPOs ahead: France Telecom's Orange, Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile, the Dutch KPN Wireless and BT Wireless all hope to recoup the vast sums spent on 3G licenses this way. But the stock market is all too aware of the risk. The resulting failure to obtain the necessary credit will be the prelude to a tough selection process, during which most of the smaller players will have to sell out to recover at least some of the cost involved in being a 3G player. The likely survivors will be the Vodafones and the Oranges of the mobile world. 3gnewsroom.com

To: kech who wrote (7170)	2/11/2001 12:34:30 AM
From: JGoren	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196772

i thought drop was just the friday tech wreck. royalties are actually increasing as payments are made for 3G licenses and 1x rollout begins.

To: kech who wrote (7170)	2/12/2001 1:57:32 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 196772

Tom, if China swings behind cdma2000, it is game over for NTT, ATT, Nokia and a lot more besides. China would have the dominant market combined with the USA and incidental countries like New Zealand and Australia which upgrade their cdmaOne networks. China would be in the box seat, in cahoots with Samsung and Kyocera and others who work with them, to take a huge market share. Perhaps QUALCOMM will give China an in-China-only cdma2000 sweetheart deal the way they did with Korea for in-Korea-only sales. Alternatively, if China wishes to go W-CDMA which would slow the world's conversion to CDMA, QUALCOMM would not be in such a good position to give China a special deal. So, if China goes cdma2000, it would be a win-win-Winn deal [my favourite kind] for China, QUALCOMM and me! Bad luck for the VW-40 IP bandits and the game would finally be up. NTT would have a Japan-only standard like the old PHS world. Everyone else would go for the most efficient, ready-to-rumble, lowest-cost, best-all-round cdma2000 way of life. Nobody could afford to be left behind in the race into 3G and the 21st century wireless world. Mqurice