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To: mightylakers who wrote (12745)	6/18/2001 1:04:07 PM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 34857

<< I will be watching Unicom closely. >> We all will be watching Unicom closely. - Eric -

To: mightylakers who wrote (12745)	6/18/2001 9:24:23 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

re: China Mobile's "Monternet" << I will be watching Unicom closely. >> >> Wireless East Meets Wireless West: Japan's i-Mode and China's Monternet Much of the drive and incentive to make wireless data work is coming from the east. The Asia Pacific market has fared far differently over recent times. Witness the unique and bizarre isolated take up of Japan's NTT DoCoMo with its i-Mode service. China is keen to keep pace with their Asian counterparts in Japan. Government-owned China Mobile Communications Corporation (CMCC) has recently launched its own version of DoCoMo's vastly successful 20 million plus subscriber service i-Mode. Dubbed the "Monternet" - eliding Mobile and Internet, China Mobile says Monternet will allow all its 'partners' - companies working on content on Monternet - to be given wide access to an "all-round upgraded net system" which includes bundled accounting, a WAP platform and short-message platform. According to Lu Xiangdong, deputy general manager of China Mobile, 'Monternet' is designed to be a unified mobile Internet operational form of the company. Instead of following traditional telecom operators' practice, it will work in close cooperation with its partners and "place itself wholly and fully at the service of clients for a multitude of ties to be built through the Internet," says Lu. China Mobile's targets for 2001 * turnover of 140 billion Yuan, an increase of 22 per cent over 2000 * to accomplish 85.00 billion fixed assets investment * to add a 35.00 million switching capacity for the user, 1,200,000 channels * to have 30 million new mobile phone subscribers * 1,500,000 clients on GPRS * 10 million Monternet subscribers * volume of SMS to reach 10 billion * rate of wireless call success rate to reach 98.5 per cent * wireless call drop rate kept below 2 per cent * satisfaction rate of service quality above 75 per cent << Above from an interesting article in Carriers World (06/12/2001): Byte Or Bite The Dust: Wireless Operators' Next Holy Grail - Data Revenue - Eric -

To: mightylakers who wrote (12745)	6/19/2001 4:56:45 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

re: A Singapore Sling for MightyLakers << How big is Singapore? Half size of L.A? >> "Singapore is a pretty important place to be," Singapore itself, while a small country, looms large on the telecommunications radar screen. It has a tremendously high penetration rate of cell phones and is considered to be one of the bellwether areas for the potential success of the next generation of phones and phone networks Without a CDMA carrier, phones that use this system won't be able to get any service in the country. Like Hong Kong, like Australia .... >> Singapore Puts CDMA in a Sling Ben Charny 6/19/01 12:05 PM CNET News.com Singapore telephone service provider MobileOne said this week it has scrapped plans to build a new telephone network with technology from Qualcomm. MobileOne, Singapore's second-largest service provider, was planning on basing its future phone network on CDMA (code division multiple access). Qualcomm has made billions of dollars licensing its CDMA technology to network operators. But late Monday, MobileOne Chief Executive Neil Montefiore said the company would instead use a network based on GSM (global system for mobile communications), the European phone standard. Montefiore claimed it would cost $500 million to launch a GSM network, compared with $1 billion for a network based on CDMA. Analysts think MobileOne's decision may help cement the perception that GSM is on its way to becoming a global standard for "3G," the name for new phone networks that carry the promise of always-on handsets capable of making voice calls or receiving data at broadband speeds. About 60 percent of the world's phone networks are GSM, with another 10 percent based on a standard called TDMA (time division multiple access), which is similar to GSM. By comparison, most industry watchers say CDMA has captured 15 percent of the world's phone networks. "Because MobileOne is a small carrier, it shouldn't have much material impact on Qualcomm's business model," said Peter Friedland of WR Hambrecht, which just initiated coverage on the Qualcomm stock with a positive rating. "But perception-wise, if a carrier decides not to use CDMA, that's not great news at all." Qualcomm did not immediately return a phone call for comment. But Qualcomm spokeswoman Ann Stowe recently said the brewing standards battle is a moot point. The company in March announced it was creating a chip to make phones capable of operating in both a GSM and CDMA network. "This is not a battle between these two standards, both will be good for Qualcomm," Stowe said during an interview last week. MobileOne's decision is also the second set of possible bad news in the past two weeks for Qualcomm. Last week, Verizon Communications representatives said they are mulling a similar switch in technologies. If Verizon does switch, that would add another 27 million customers to the GSM tally. Singapore itself, while a small country, looms large on the telecommunications radar screen. It has a tremendously high penetration rate of cell phones and is considered to be one of the bellwether areas for the potential success of the next generation of phones and phone networks Without a CDMA carrier, phones that use this system won't be able to get any service in the country, said Tole Hart, an analyst with market research company Gartner. "Singapore is a pretty important place to be," he said. << - Eric -