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To: Ibexx who wrote (94311)	2/23/2001 1:54:01 AM
From: limtex	Respond to of 152472

Ibex and thread - If Q assists just one carrier to have cdma2000 the rest will follow. They will have no choice. Not only will it provide a boost to NOK who will be able to sell more handsets but it will also start earning money for the Euros. Roaming is expensive anyway but in Europe you can just walk into any teloc store and buy your own SIM card very cheaply and no fuss. There is no qualifying credit condition as it is all pre-paid. That part of the system is far more advanced in Europe than the US where gettting a mobile phone is very very difficult by comparison. The point I am getting to is that a phine that works with a SIM card and is GSM in say France or Germany but is cdma2000 or GSM in Gt Britain ( home of Vodaphone) would not work with HDR in France or Germany but so what it would work with a GSM SIM card either dometci British ir local Franch thus providing voice in Europe but not data until a carrier in France or Germany opened a cdma2000 system as well. Sorry it sounds complicated. It isn't really its just several countries and the big telcos there have saddled themselves wit hhuge debts which I don't think they can wait for 4-5 years foa working W-CDMA system. How what Dr Jacobs has said squares with DoCoMo starting a W-CDMA system in May I haven't the faintest idea but when Dr Jacobs ytalks about cdma that is good enough for me. Best regards, L