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To: Sector Investor who wrote (35892)	9/29/2001 10:10:05 AM
From: mahler_one	Respond to of 42804

Say Sector...wonder if the Fed will really pull the plug on funds and make such available at virtually no interest. I know such sounds really dumb, but I read in The Times last week that some of the corresponding banks in the Midwest were charging other banks NO interest for funds, and there were very few takers. Indeed, the level of activity was so low that there were virtually none willing to borrow. Scary news I think, and reflects the uncertainty and consumer pessimism. As to MRVC....is going to take some very big news to get the stock price on a sustained upwards move. Major contracts in South America (economy there is not good, won't happen ), a major break-through in Asia ( perhaps China? ), new technology, sale of a division, etc., etc,...one can create many other possible scenarios. All speculation and conjecture of course. Mr. Krugman will be appearing in The Times Magazine tomorrow...writing, it is advertised, on why the "old" stimuli as supplied by The Fed are not moving the economy at all well. Possibly formulated before the WTC event, but such attacks certainly adds another horrible variable. Interesting to see what he says, but more confirmation, IMHO, that Mr. Greenspan, by his actions last year, sent the country into a recession. He will "hide", as it were, behind the WTC disaster and his arcane rhetoric that clouds the issues behind the veils of nouns and verbs arranged in a syntax that only he understands...but the major blame is clearly on him and The Fed. Before I hear it, of course the Fed could not have known what was coming. However, the country was teetering on recession before the WTC. Let's hope that the rate cuts will eventually start the economy again...have my doubts such increased activity will start soon. Make funds available at zero interest for a period of time. M1

To: Sector Investor who wrote (35892)	10/1/2001 10:43:06 AM
From: pdrrn69	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42804

I do not believe this was posted. zdnet.com Japan unveils 3G wireless phone network By Ben Charny ZDNet News September 28, 2001 1:50 PM PT Japanese phone giant NTT DoCoMo on Monday will unveil the world's fastest phone network plus three new phones capable of things like real-time videoconferencing or sending and receiving e-mail attachments with 10,000 characters. The network will be first turned on in the Tokyo area, where some 5,000 residents have been using it on a trial basis since May. It will then spread throughout the country in the coming months. "We are more than ready," NTT DoCoMo President Keiji Tachikawa said in a news conference this week. The wireless industry will be craning its collective necks, but not to see whether customers are taking to videoconferencing or sending e-mails with giant attachments, said IDC's wireless analyst Keith Waryas. Instead, he expects the focus will be solely on the expected technological glitches that will most assuredly occur, he said. He explains that the Japanese phone market is very unique to the rest of the world. It has the largest subscribers to "data" services, like cruising the Internet on a handset, because there are more cell phones than computers in Japan, Waryas said. So American wireless carriers who are priming their own high-speed networks and services will do well to not focus on what Japanese users are doing with the network, but how well the handsets are working. "Tokyo will become a test market to see how well the handsets hold up," Waryas said. "Verizon won't be able to say this application is doing well, so bring it over here to the United States." American carriers continue to take a wait-and-see approach. "We'll see after they introduce it, what they actually have," said Jim Gerace, a spokesman for Verizon Wireless, the leading wireless carrier in the United States, which plans on unveiling its own high-speed network by the end of the year. "Frankly, all the carriers will be there eventually with those kinds of things." American wireless users watching events overseas can expect, at the very least, some sticker shock. The least expensive of NTT's three phones, the FOMA P2401, costs $250. The most expensive is the FOMA P2101V, which is priced at $501. Panasonic/Matsushita Communications Industrial and NEC manufacture the phones. When, and if, the network goes up on Monday, it will either be the first in the world or the second, depending on who is doing the boasting. Korean cell phone users have been using a so-called third-generation network, with its accompanying always-on capabilities that zoom calls and data at broadband speeds, for at least a year, says Qualcomm, which has outfitted the carriers in Korea with their gear. American carriers Verizon, Sprint PCS and AT&T Wireless, which is partly owned by NTT DoCoMo, aren't that far behind and all say they will be watching the launch closely. The American carriers all plan to introduce similar networks in the near future. Some are already here, with AT&T Wireless beating every American carrier to the punch by launching, in limited supply, a high-speed network in Seattle for business users. Verizon also says it has a network in the New York and New Jersey area ready for use, but it is now waiting on the handsets to arrive. American wireless observers think there will be a smattering of glitches to hit the NTT network soon after it's launched, the inevitable by-product of any new technology. American carriers are not the only interested parties. Carriers in Europe, which have invested more than $100 billion to buy the radio frequencies needed for the higher speed networks, will also be keeping a close watch on NTT's successes and failures. Vodafone Group concedes that the launch is an important event, unlikely words from one of NTT's biggest competitors. "It will be good for confidence," Vodafone Chief Executive Chris Gent told Reuters on a visit to Tokyo this week.