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Technology Stocks : Nokia (NOK) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: S100 who wrote (13257)	7/3/2001 4:46:23 AM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Yes, Financial Time did not mention anything specific to telecommunications either. Understandable if they quote engineers who talk rubber. However, they,he remembered when Nokia sold the PC-unit to ICL (Fujitsu of UK), but didn't remember which factory in europe was the most efficient, highest quality even some 4-5 years ago, sucessfully competing with asia factories. (in spite of high taxes for health care, education,etc, no cheap labour available, but good quality and less BS) Must also be a little tough that UK participated in building the GSM standard, even made at least one, almost exactly 10 years ago (2kg, made the first GSM call with Ericsson) Matti Alahuhta doesn't talk about "disruptive" technology but "enabling" technology, must depend on which side of the fence one stands. If Alan Cane would like to write something worth reading he might write about subsidised and bundled handsets, and which UK operator allegedly tried to blackmail Nokia by cancelling some orders, as well how that compares to unbundled markets. But until he does that I guess he has to survive as a hired pen, do what he is told to do, pick who and what and how he quotes, cut and paste the same old stuff. Ilmarinen P.S. But as UK will join EMU there will be new opportunities in UK, not just tax evasion and running the cash flow of old colonies. P.P.S. If he would like to dive really deep, he could analyze how having colonies and banana republics, cheap labour, private schools for the rest,etc affects both democracy, legal systems, business, investing habits and culture, especially corporative culture and middle managers. (on the other hand the world would lose the entertainment of stiff upper lips and english humour, a must to cope with all of that)