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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (3716)	10/31/2001 2:33:27 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 12230

And more. This is a very fast-moving devil: <LUXEMBOURG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 31, 2001-- World's first deployment of smart cards in CDMA network with bring China Unicom subscribers increased roaming capabilities Gemplus International S.A. (Euronext: Sicovam 5768 and Nasdaq: "GEMP"), the leading provider of smart card solutions for mobile telephony, announces it is the first company to successfully pass the first series of tests using the R-UIM (Removable - User Identity Module) card, GemXplore World, in China Unicom's CDMA network. When China Unicom launches its nationwide CDMA card-based network early next year, it will be the world's first mass deployment of a smart card in a CDMA network... contd...> As I have ranted for years, people used to say that China was 100 years behind, but my argument was that in a single generation, countries can go from the stone age to cyberspace. Children born now don't care about their parents' great war stories. They have their own lives to live, and do. So now we have China about to move into the lead in the CDMA cyberspace world. Oh no! Don't say I have to learn kanji. I guess I'll have to leave it to the next generation. I wish my mother [died 1984] was alive to see this [she was born in China and had a lifelong strong interest in China]. Mqurice