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To: engineer who wrote (97622)	4/18/2001 10:49:25 AM
From: Getch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

engineer, the 35% claimed by Nokia of the W-CDMA market is for infrastructure. Tero wrote an interesting article last week also hyping the large percentage of W-CDMA infrastructure market that NOK and Ericsson were commanding. Of course, Tero and the author of the piece you reference neglect to mention that the reason for the large percentage of the W-CDMA (or in Tero's article all of 3G infrastructure) going to NOK and ERICY was that there is so little expense of upgrading a CDMA network to 3G that the actual dollar expense is heavily weighted to the Europeans. In other words, the fact that the European carriers are going to have a massive expense to upgrade to 3G is presented as a positive. Tero even brushed off the CDMA upgrade to 3G as being so minor an expense that it was barely worth mentioning in his effusive praise of the massive market for W-CDMA infrastructure. Me, I'll take Sprint with its minimal upgrade expense and large quantity of existing spectrum.