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To: Eric L who wrote (12196)	6/28/2001 2:57:38 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196559

S100 posted this at Nokia board. Perhaps more than one feline was let out of the bag. One would think that a Nokia spokesman would not go out on a limb like Vartiainen did unless there was some meat on the bone. Here goes: <WCDMA, not some strange niche technology for backward regions, lots of masts but they just interfere with each other.> Hmmm, Nokia SVP Pekka Vartiainen, Nokia Mobile Phones letting kat out of bag? Ohh. veracast.com. Q and A NextWave Question. Ans. It is an open issue, we need to wait, may go to Supreme Court. Lets wait and see what happens. Every thing shown here today can generally be implemented by using GPRS EDGE or 1X technology which can operate in existing frequency band. That's the main advantage. If you want to use the existing frequency bands you go to GPRS EDGE or you go to 1X. When it comes to Wide band CDMA deployment, then you need new frequency bands and you need contiguous frequency bands and then this NextWave auction still comes up and before that is resolved will be some operators be at least slowed down a little. GPRS 1X question Ans. We are going to have the 8310, which is the European version 900 1800 GPRS terminal available third quarter meaning that carrier testing is just about to start. Here in Europe we are going to GPRS phone available fourth quarter this year and then in Europe the 6310, kind of business, 8310 is a fashion category phone, 6310 is business phone that is going to be available forth quarter this year. Those are the kind of timelines and we expect to ship millions of GPRS phones already this year. When it comes to packet data capable phones GPRS 1X phones We think 5 percent of the global volume will be 2.5 G this year and approximately 30 percent next year. CDMA Question Ans. We now have in CDMA, we play pretty much in the low end. And by the way I just want to say that I believe we have now pretty much resolved the technology glitches we had during the spring, so we are back in the CDMA business now third quarter again and we have three very good low end phones. We have Nokia 5170i, Nokia 5185i and the new Nokia 3285. So we can play in the low end, which is maybe up to 70 percent of the volume. But we don't have at the moment phones that are at the high end at all. We are going to have phones at the high end, next year, not during this year. And comes also at the introduction of 1X technology. Every phone in CDMA that we are going to launch in the next year will be 1X capable. WCDMA QUES Ans. It is a mess, it is a big mess. I think you should really ask the carriers. Seems to me that no carrier will implement in time. The GSM or TDMA carriers are closest to implement in time but at the moment it seems that they might be slightly delayed. It is a complicated.... ---

To: Eric L who wrote (12196)	6/28/2001 3:22:04 PM
From: Caxton Rhodes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196559

Face it Eric, the reason Nok is late on GPRS is that they have to provide an oven glove and a "car battery in a backpack" with every phone. Since nok doesn't outsource anything they have to get their guys sewing the oven mits and the backpack and have others making the car batteries. That takes time! Cax

To: Eric L who wrote (12196)	6/28/2001 8:31:15 PM
From: Kent Rattey	Respond to of 196559

Nokia says next-generation phones on time By: Ben Charny 6/28/01 5:10 PM Source: News.com Nokia on Thursday stuck by its original shipping dates for a next-generation wireless phone earmarked for the crucial North American market. In a statement released Thursday, the world's leader in handset market share said it would ship the mobile phones to the Americas by year's end, reiterating what it has said for months. Nokia spokeswoman Megan Matthews said European markets would get the phones sometime in the third quarter. Nokia said it was trying to reassure a public that has grown skeptical of any claims about when the next generation of phone services might arrive in the United States and elsewhere. This year, carriers throughout the world, including NTT DoCoMo in Japan, have been delaying the introduction of the always-on, broadband Internet-capable cell phones for a variety of reasons, including a delay in the manufacture of handsets that will work on the new networks. Nokia also unveiled Thursday the type of phone that will hit the U.S. market. The phone is the 8390 model, which among other things supports the newest version of WAP (wireless application protocol), a technology used to help cell phone users view Web pages. The phone has all the trappings of what is considered the next generation of phones capable of broadband Net access and other features such as downloading software or music. But it also is capable of having data beamed into it using an infrared port, similar to the way a Palm handheld computer works, the Finnish wireless company announced. The handsets are expected to work on new phone systems being built by VoiceStream Wireless, AT&T Wireless and Cingular. These systems are based on a standard known as GSM, or Global System for Mobile Communications. The Nokia phones in question are designed to work on GPRS, or General Packet Radio Service. GPRS will serve as the new network that the three carriers are expected to upgrade to when offering the next generation of cell phones that can offer always-on mobile Internet access at broadband speeds. But at least one analyst believes Nokia may be unable to meet its proposed shipment timeline. Salomon Smith Barney wireless equipment analyst T.C. Robillard Jr. recently issued an investment advisory in which he predicted that Nokia may not meet its self-imposed shipping deadlines for both North America and Europe. Robillard first predicted delays in March. He recast his opinion last week after learning that Nokia chose to use a rival's phone instead of its own to demonstrate the next-generation technology. He did not return a phone call for comment concerning Nokia's Thursday announcement. Nokia said Robillard's concerns are unfounded. Matthews said the company demonstrated how its handsets work in a GPRS system at the CeBit trade show in Germany earlier this year. "We certainly have been testing and (demonstrating) and showing our own phones," Matthews said. Nokia was also busy with several other announcements Thursday. The company confirmed rumors of layoffs within its Internet infrastructure division, saying it plans to trim 1,000 workers. Nokia also unveiled that it had reached a two-year deal to license and resell software from F5 Networks, a Seattle-based company that sells Internet traffic and content management software. Further terms of the deal were not disclosed.

To: Eric L who wrote (12196)	6/29/2001 1:28:23 AM
From: tradeyourstocks	Respond to of 196559

Eric- For the plain and simple reason that I am not into conscious fabrication, distortion of fact, or the creation of misinformation. No, Eric you're not. I guess you're just bound to go down with the mother ship kicking and screaming into your Nokia GPRS phone. I don't want to bore you and the thread with countless links from the past that state or imply that GSM carriers throughout the world expected to see Nokia GPRS handsets by now. Here is a quote from something I read in November of 2000: "Nokia, the world's largest handset supplier, expects to start shipping limited volumes of GPRS-enabled handsets in the first half of 2001 but does not expect to see a material impact on its results until next year's second half, the company's chief executive said in October." ebusinessworld.com My point was and still is that Nokia has already disappointed many GSM carriers that have upgraded to GPRS and are still waiting for their phones. No wonder these same carriers are wining about UMTS. I wonder when they'll realize that Jorma has sold them a bunch of VW. BTW if a chip is expected to sample in Q4 2000 and it samples in April 2000, I consider that chip early<g> MicroE