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To: Scott Zion who wrote (7976)	3/1/2001 7:08:11 PM
From: cfoe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 196649

<i<>Question: 3)Will Cingular follow AWE's GSM/GPRS/EDGE/w-CDMA migration path? Seybold: As far as Cingular is concerned I don't for a minute think that they would make the same mistake as AT&T--how do you support 4 data technologies and 5 voice technologies on the same network?? But Andy did not answer the big question. Does Cingular wait for WCDMA or do they go 1X?!

To: Scott Zion who wrote (7976)	3/1/2001 10:10:03 PM
From: Scott Zion	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196649

Seybold has updated his roadmap to reflect his comments. wirelessroadmap.com SK must have cashed NTT DoCoMo's check. What happened to roaming w/ NTT for the World Cup? SK telecoms carrier delays 3G Published: March 1 2001 20:34GMT \| Last Updated: March 2 SK Telecom, one of South Korea's leading mobile phone companies, added to concerns over the timetable for third generation mobile phone services on Thursday when it said it would delay roll-out beyond its planned date of May next year. Tae Jin Park, a company manager, said the group planned to recoup its costs on the existing 2G and so-called 2-1/2G technology before full migration to 3G. He told a Credit Suisse First Boston conference in Tokyo that SK Telecom would not launch 3G services until 2003 at the earliest. Although the carrier had agreed to be bound by a government timetable of services for 2002, the Korean authorities had since relaxed the rules, he said. His comments add weight to views expressed by some European technology companies and mobile operators that mass uptake of 3G services is likely to be delayed. In January an executive from Telecom Italia Mobile suggested that the launch date of 2002, expected by many, was over-optimistic and 2004 was more likely. More recently Qualcomm, developer of a 3G standard known as CDMA2000, and Alcatel, the French telecommunications equipment manufacturer, warned it would be years before third generation services would be widely used. The high cost of 3G licences in Europe, which has left many European carriers financially stretched, has also raised concerns that carriers will not have the financial resources to invest in the necessary infrastructure. NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest carrier, will launch the world's first 3G services in May but there are growing fears that handset manufacturers may not be ready in time. "The roll-out of 3G services is probably going to be much slower than we expect," said Pip Coburn, global technology strategist at UBS Warburg. This was due to the difficulty users would have in making the technology leap and the growing reluctance of the capital markets or banks to fund the huge investments in infrastructure required, he said. markets.ft.com