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To: Caxton Rhodes who wrote (19310)	2/20/2002 7:27:41 AM
From: qorilla_watcher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 196425

"Interesting but I don't think Alcatel or Siemens has signed a license yet." NOK signed up because they required an infra license for then forthcoming orders. Now Siemens is in the same predicament. Is the Q's unwillingness to grant TDMA concessions to Siemens holding up the licensing?

To: Caxton Rhodes who wrote (19310)	2/20/2002 1:28:59 PM
From: Dennis Roth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 196425

Alcatel reiterates to grow UMTS market share biz.yahoo.com CANNES, France, 20 Feb (Reuters) - French telecoms equipment maker Alcatel said on Wednesday it still aims to grow its market share in UMTS infrastructure for fast data communications over mobile phones to 15 percent from between six to eight percent now. ``We still intend to go to 15 percent. It will take some time. We're not in a hurry. We're going at a steady pace,'' Marc Rouanne, the French company's wireless division manager, told Reuters on the sidelines of the 3GSM World Congress. He expects revenues from UMTS network infrastructure to generate 10 to 15 percent of Alcatel's total mobile revenues this year. This is the first year wireless telecoms operators are building trial and small-scale UMTS networks that will eventually replace the current second-generation wireless voice networks. Alcatel claims a 10 percent market share in second-generation GSM voice networks and an 11 percent share of the beefed up GPRS version which allows for somewhat better data communications. Rouanne also said operators were ``underinvesting'' in UMTS networks because of their financial constraints, and he could not say when demand would accelerate because of ``low visibility''. Alcatel, which is working with Japan's Fujitsu to offer UMTS systems, is involved in 15 field trials with different operators in Europe and Asia and will add 10 more locations in the first half of this year. The company currently has a customer list counting 110 operators, but until it teamed up with Fujitsu was regarded a late arrival to the UMTS game. Alcatel said that the combined research efforts with Fujitsu of 1,700 staff and the fact that Fujitsu has already built third-generation networks in Japan, has given Alcatel much more clout with European and Asian operators. This should help the French company to grow market share.

To: Caxton Rhodes who wrote (19310)	2/20/2002 6:58:58 PM
From: Caxton Rhodes	Respond to of 196425

China Unicom GSM Subscribers Up 4% To 28.1M In Jan Vs Dec DOW JONES NEWSWIRES HONG KONG -- China Unicom Ltd. (CHU), the mainland's second largest mobile carrier, said Wednesday that the number of subscribers on its global system for mobile comunications, or GSM, network increased by 4.0% in January from the previous month. This followed a 5.1% growth in subscriber numbers between Nov. 20 and Dec. 31, 2001. The company had 28.1 million subscribers as of Jan. 31, compared with 27.0 million as of Dec. 31, it said. In the same period, 439,000 subscribers signed up for its new Code Division Multiple Access network, which was launched in early January. The company said it also has 328,000 pre-registered CDMA subscribers. With regard to its GSM network, China Unicom said the number of postpaid card users increased by only 82,000 to 16.57 million from 16.49 million as of Dec. 31. Low-end prepaid card users rose by 994,000 to 11.54 million from 10.54 million a month earlier, compared with 12.9% growth in the previous Nov. 20-Dec. 31 period. China Unicom also sold 418.7 million minutes of circuit switched long distance calls in January, and 403.9 million minutes of long distance calls over Internet Protocol. Its Internet subscribers rose 8.4% to 3.69 million at end-January, from 3.41 million as of end-December, after jumping 23% in the Nov. 20-Dec. 31 period. Pager users fell 3.7% to 31.7 million at the end of January from 32.9 million at the end of December. -By Anette Jonsson, Dow Jones Newswires; 852-2802-7002; anette.jonsson@dowjones.com Updated February 20, 2002 7:41 a.m. EST