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To: foundation who wrote (11102)	5/30/2001 8:43:22 AM
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Vodafone blames phone-makers for GPRS delay 10:21 Wednesday May 30, 2001, nothing-ventured.com Makers of mobile phones have rebutted claims by Vodafone chief executive Chris Gent that a lack of handsets has delayed the consumer roll-out of GPRS services until next year. A Nokia spokeswoman said: "The Nokia 6310 GPRS phone is ready for volume roll-out in the second half of 2001 and we will also have a fashion GPRS phone, the 8310, available in the third quarter of this year. There is no availability problem in the second half of the year as Vodafone is claiming." A Motorola spokeswoman said: "We cannot speak for other handset manufacturers. But from Motorola's perspective, there are no delays in the roll-out of GPRS phones at all. We are supplying Vodafone with Timeport 260 GPRS phones this Friday [June 1], meeting the original deadline for consumer roll-out. We are also launching four other GPRS models to be available in volume throughout the next few months." But Gent said: "What handset makers say and what they do are two different things. We can only go by what comes into the warehouses and the phones are arriving at the back end of the scheduled quarters rather than the front end. We do not think it worthwhile to roll out one or two GPRS phones per shop as a certain competitor has done and call it a consumer roll-out." telecom.paper.nl