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To: S100 who wrote (13380)	7/5/2001 1:52:10 AM
From: S100	Respond to of 34857

SURVEY - FINLAND: Behemoth maintains growth prospects while rivals begin to feel the chill: Has Finland's top company become too dependent on handset sales? Financial Times; Jul 5, 2001 By CHRISTOPHER BROWN-HUMES Nokia is a company that has got its timing spectacularly right in the last decade, but the optimism it expressed last December about prospects for the mobile phone industry seems to have been one of its less successful calls. Jorma Ollila, the company's chairman and chief executive, rounded off an upbeat presentation to analysts by stating that "in the mobile world, the best is yet to come". He may yet be right in the long-term, but in the short-term at least the prediction has proved wide of the mark. snip snip Many analysts believe that Nokia will struggle to maintain its margins in the long-term, because they argue that mobile phones will become a commodity like personal computers and other high-tech products. Nokia insists that this will not happen, partly because the complexities involved in making ever more sophisticated handsets are a formidable deterrent to new entrants. But not even Nokia would dispute the view that its fortunes may depend on the development of the mobile internet. Already delayed, it is still far from certain when 3G will take off, with continuing concerns about consumer demand and technical issues like interoperability. Nokia talks of the 3G breakthrough coming towards the end of next year, with intermediate GPRS services beginning the transition to 3G already later this year. If it is right, the current slump in market growth may indeed be as temporary as Nokia is hoping. globalarchive.ft.com

To: S100 who wrote (13380)	7/5/2001 4:13:08 AM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 34857

OT: This happened earlier this year when the Finnish team was embroiled in a drugs scandal at the World Ski Championships in Lahti. It was a huge blow to a country where cross-country skiers are sporting icons. It was also starkly at odds with the findings of a recent survey which suggested that Finland was the least corrupt country in the world. --- Not a huge blow, top sports have been dependent on chemical manipulation for decades, only a matter of a cat and mouse game between methods and testing. Keeping the mice in special micehouses, training in a special mouse-gym, all under low pressure to increase blood values has been against universal mice-rights for a long time. Feeding them dead mice-brains to get natural, undetectable growth hormones is even worse. As is impregnating the girl-mice just before the important game so that they get that little extra hormonal treatment too. One of the lesser ones is getting classified as an asthmatic to have the right to take that drug. Ilmarinen P.S. These guys managed to increase their blood quality so much that they had to lower it fast, and unluckily picked the wrong method due to an old web site.. P.P.S. Why didn't the article mention that prime minister is a social democrat while the finance minister is a "tory", too complex and scary for 2-party systems with no center?? (now in opposition)