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To: Eric L who wrote (16581)	11/15/2001 8:35:05 AM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

re: Nokia and Lycos Europe MMS Cooperation >> Nokia and Lycos Europe Announce Cooperation in Multimedia Messaging Services Thursday November 15, 2001 Nokia Press Release Nokia and Lycos Europe today announced that they will work together to develop Multimedia Messaging Services. Lycos Europe have recently launched their Mobile Channel, merging its communities with the power of mobile technology. Lycos' new channel is currently built around its mainstay SMS service which is the leading SMS web to phone and phone to web service in Europe. Extending Lycos Mobile with new MMS features and MMS content gives the users -in a community environment- an even more exciting experience of informative and entertainment MMS services. Features like composing Multimedia Messages out of ready -made Lycos content or personal created images will make MMS more accessible to the consumer. ``Multimedia Messaging Service enables personalized, versatile messaging content. The new mobile generation favours messaging and visual content over traditional voice calls. For them messaging is the natural way to communicate. The cooperation with Lycos Europe with its large userbase is an excellent means to bring services to the customer and demonstrate the potential of Multimedia Messaging Services'', said Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President, Nokia Mobile Phones. ``With our latest product developments of trendsetting mobile features we are well prepared for such technological innovations. The cooperation with Nokia is a great chance for us to act as one of the first movers in this field and to introduce this new generation of communication services to the millions of Lycos users'', said Dr. Jurgen Galler, Managing Director Lycos Mobile and Vice President Lycos Europe. Multimedia Messaging Services facilitate new styles of communication that respond to the needs of a society where business and personal lifestyles are changing and evolving ever faster. Nokia's approach is based upon a series of evolutionary steps: text messaging (text only), picture messaging (text and graphics), MMS -Multimedia Messaging Service (first phase: still images, graphics, voice or audio clips and text, later also video clips). MMS is the most versatile standardised messaging service to date, including all the features and content types of preceding messaging services. Multimedia Messaging Service is an open standard supported by 3GPP and WAP Forum and it is bearer independent. << - Eric -

To: Eric L who wrote (16581)	11/15/2001 11:56:50 AM
From: Caxton Rhodes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

Eric- You amaze me. that Sprint PCS call was the best thing I have heard from a carrier. Sprint in short was confirming that they believe that the TDMA/GSM/GPRS/EDGE guys won't be able to compete with similar services. As far as my comment about you not having a clue, I should have been more clear, you are totally ignoring the big picutre. 1X with 144 will test the data demand market, 307 was always to follow as confirmed by Sprint. Qualcomm is shipping the 5100 and 5500 with 307 ahead of networks being ready for 307. The upgrade from to 307 is minor, I will followup with details. This strategy is different from the GSM crowd which is fully aware they are way behind and launch "networks???" without working handsets. 307 and DO has been tested and is waiting for network deployment. What would have the carriers do, launch 307 and say the new 153 handsets are second best, I don't think so. It will be rolled in, sounds like Sprint plans on 1 year after the 1X 153 is fully deployed. Makes sense to me. The 307 handsets will be a total piece of cake. Never did I say 307 was fully comercialized. If anyone ever pumped Q's technology it was Valente on that call. As far as WCDMA, the faster it is deployed the better. It appears that the downlaod speeds in Japan are a lot faster than 64, but I am still waiting for average speeds to be released as the network gets loaded. Caxton P.S. Been loading the boat with PCS since 22.5, more calls yesterday.