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To: mightylakers who wrote (20007)	3/6/2002 2:12:56 PM
From: foundation	Respond to of 197451

re: Funniest quote of the day ========== It may take a bit for this to sink into the Street... And many have a vested interest in keeping it quiet. 3GSM carriers, for instance, who should take a meaningful hit. And 3GSM vendors.. motivated to sell product for exciting, bandwidth hungry services. What is most curious is why ERICY would go public now... well before the fecal matter hits the fan... and semingly contrary to its vested interests? It seems unlikely that this will make them new friends in the 3GSM carrier community... Is it possible Seybold was on track? Might ERICY exploit costly GPRS cell splitting requirements to market 1x... GSM1x to Europe? <g> But with the cat out of the bag, how long until the mobile market data consultants get their teeth into the story? Perhaps EMC will interview China Mobile...

To: mightylakers who wrote (20007)	3/6/2002 2:15:24 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197451

re: Late Breaking << Funniest quote of the day: Ericsson says operators must invest in networks in order to upgrade to GPRS >> This is funnier. Ericsson talks ... ... Cingular responds ... ... Nortel solves the problem and counts the cash ... >> Nortel Seals $500 Million Deal With Cingular Kristy Bassuener March 6, 2002 Nortel Networks today announces a $500 million contract to expand and upgrade Cingular Wireless networks. Under the deal, signed in November 2001, Nortel will provide GRM/GPRS upgrades to Cingular territories in the Carolinas, Georgia and Puerto Rico. The arrangement also calls for a TDMA-to-GSM upgrade for the networks located in Puerto Rico. Nortel and Cingular also today say they have completed a trial of radio spectrum innovations that can increase voice traffic capacity by 120 percent. The companies plan to deploy the technology. Late last year Cingular surprised some insiders by announcing that it would port its current-generation TDMA networks to GPRS and EDGE technologies as its path to next-generation services. In December, Ericsson and Nokia announced that they had signed contracts worth most of the $3 billion estimated cost of migrating Cingular's networks. Then in February, Cingular and AT&T Wireless -- another carrier moving the GPRS route -- said they would split the cost of network upgrades along remote U.S. highways. << - Eric -