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To: Pierre who wrote (97066)	4/6/2001 5:38:26 PM
From: Jim Fleming	Respond to of 152472

Still, why are that many phones in a warehouse? Pierre I don't know the answer but I believe Verizon's original order was for one million phones from Nokia. Jim

To: Pierre who wrote (97066)	4/7/2001 9:08:29 PM
From: golfinvestor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

<Verizon? Sales that slow?> My guess is the unidentified official is from LWIN since they state a new chip should be put in the phone. A nice indirect plug for Q if you ask me. BWDIK. Snip An official at one carrier, who declined to be identified, doesn't accept Nokia's argument, however. "It's their problem, and since we have a quarter-million of their phones in a warehouse, we think they should take them back and put in a new chip set. We don't want to sell these phones to our customers," the official said. Andrea Linsky, a spokeswoman for Verizon Wireless in Bedminster, N.J., said her company "is working with Nokia to make sure customers' handsets can evolve" to the new 3G standards...