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To: S100 who wrote (96230)	3/27/2001 12:51:32 PM
From: S100	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

DoCoMo unveils 3G handset prototypes March 27, 2001 Web posted at: 11:30 a.m. EST (1630 GMT) By Martyn Williams (IDG) -- NTT DoCoMo Inc. used the CeBIT trade show this week to give the world a glimpse at what the first handsets for 3G (third generation) mobile services are likely to look like. The company, which plans to launch the world's first 3G cellular service based on W-CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) in Tokyo at the end of May, showed for the first time non-working models of terminals from NEC Corp., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. and Toshiba Corp. Although not identical to the launch handsets, those on show this week were very close, said a DoCoMo spokesman. The terminals look largely similar to the latest models the company has on the market for its second-generation network and contrast with the futuristic handset image models that DoCoMo and the handset makers have been showing in the past, and which are not likely to be on the market for years. The fact that the company was unable to show working prototypes of the handsets illustrates the tight timeframe that handset makers are working to in order to be ready for DoCoMo's launch. In fact, only Matsushita and NEC will be ready in time for the launch: the companies plan to put two handsets each on the market. DoCoMo has contracted ten manufacturers to make handsets, but other companies won't be rolling them out until later this year or next year, company officials recently confirmed. cnn.com

To: S100 who wrote (96230)	3/27/2001 6:36:14 PM
From: Rajala	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

China deal: Shakespeare reborn >Most of the money will be spent on upgrading the CDMA >network it acquired from Great Wall Telecom Corp in >January this year and expanding its own national network, >in which it invested USD843 million last year. Hmmm... "most of the money" will be spent on "CDMA...and...its own national network". The emphasis has to be on the word "and". What does all this mean? Strange. As anyone knows its own national network is GSM. It means that even if this news item would prove to be 100%accurate, they wouldn´t have to spend a dime on CDMA. And why would they, indeed? They have 13M happy GSM customers and the whole nation is moving already to GSM based 2.5G. Anyone aware of issues such as roaming, common service platforms, SIM, 2G-2.5G upward-backward compatibility, handset momentum will find it very hard to believe that someone would intentionally switch to a betamax 2G standard. There are higher chances that the US will go metric, socialist, get a lesbian president and adopt Euro. - rajala