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To: Dennis Roth who wrote (20378)	3/15/2002 9:11:29 AM
From: Dennis Roth	Respond to of 196972

Unicom Unit goes iDen Motorola signs $13.3m deal with Unicom paging By Reuters staff totaltele.com 15 March 2002 Motorola has signed a 110 million yuan ($13.3 million) deal with the paging unit of China Unicom Ltd to build China's largest mobile radio system in Shanghai, the two companies said on Friday. Motorola Inc said it would help Unicom Guomai Communications Co expand its standard two-way radio service to reach business users within a 6,185 sq km (2,388 sq mile) area in China's commercial hub. "Our partnership in the past has been successful and this award is another significant milestone. When implemented, this will be China's largest public access mobile radio system," Motorola China general manager Vanoy Wong said in a statement. An official at Shanghai-listed Unicom Guomai, owned by China's second largest cellular provider China Unicom, said the network expansion was expected to be completed by the end of this year. "Motorola has agreed to let us use their iDEN technology to expand our network and we will invest 110 million yuan," the official told Reuters. "We hope the project would be done by the end of this year," the official said. iDEN is Motorola's proprietary wireless technology. Unicom Guomai's A shares, reserved for Chinese investors, closed down 3.08 percent at 16.36 yuan on Friday in line with a broad market decline.

To: Dennis Roth who wrote (20378)	3/15/2002 12:08:14 PM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 196972

re: New Symbian CEO from Psion << Symbian needs 'tens of millions' of handsets sold to break even >> Symbian Ownership: Psion 28.1% Motorola 21% Nokia 21% Ericsson 21% (with Sony Ericsson) Matsushita 8.9% These four handset manufacturers accounted for 66% of the handsets shipped worldwide in 2001. Symbian Licensees: * Fujitsu * Kenwood * Samsung * Sanyo * Siemens * Sony Samsung, Siemens, and Sanyo accounted for an additional 16% of handsets shipped worldwide in 2001. Symbian Partners: * Qualcomm et al (Symbian 7.0 OS supports cdma2000 & WCDMA) >> Symbian Gains New CEO, Gears Up For Commercialization Anne Young Total Telecom Hannover 14 March 2002 Symbian appointed a new CEO Thursday as the company looks forward to a year when it hopes to see the creation of a mass market for its mobile phone operating system. The company said David Levin, currently CEO of Psion, which owns 28.1% of Symbian, will take up the reins on 8 April. He succeeds Colly Myers, who stepped down in February. According to Paul Cockerton, Symbian's head of global corporate communications who was speaking to Total Telecom at the CeBIT trade fair in Hannover, Myers concentrated more on the R&D side of the company's operations, while Levin will have a more commercial focus. Symbian develops open OS systems designed for advanced mobile phones that combine voice and data with PDA functionalities. Owned by Psion, Motorola (21% shareholding), Nokia (21%), Ericsson (21% with Sony Ericsson) and Matsushita/Panasonic (8.9%), the company said it now has licenses with mobile phone manufacturers representing more than 70% of the global handset market. But so far there have been few deployments of the OS, as next-generation networks and handsets have been slow to come to market. So far the Symbian OS is only used in smartphones such as the Ericsson R380 and the Nokia Communicator, but sales are small at the moment, said Cockerton. "With sales it's very much about looking forward," he stressed. And 2002 is set to be a key year for Symbian as vendors are set to announce the launch of next generation 2.5 and 3G phones powered by the Symbian OS. Nokia, for example, is bringing out its 7650 color screen phone that will allow multimedia messaging, as well as its new Communicator 9200 series, while Sony Ericsson recently announced the launch of its P800 smartphone, due to ship in Q3. The latest company to license Symbian is Fujitsu, which joins the likes of Siemens, Sony, Sanyo, Kenwood, and the shareholding firms. Korean vendor Samsung also hinted at CeBIT that it was about to form a partnership with Symbian, according to reports, but Cockerton said he could not comment on this at present. He added that Symbian "is working with most of the major companies," while Morten Grauballe, product manager, product line management, said Samsung "is very attractive to us." Symbian has now launched version 7.0 of the OS, which now supports Ipv6 and is designed to support latest 3G standards and MMS. The company also announced further funding in January to the tune of 20.75 million pounds, largely because of the delayed rollout of next-generation smartphones. "We were affected by the delay," said Cockerton, "but our strategy was always a long-term one. The commitment by handset manufacturers will only increase as we deliver on time," he added. Cockerton did not wish to comment on whether further funding would be needed at a certain timepoint, or whether a timetable has been set for the oft-discussed Symbian IPO. He did say no date has ever been set for the IPO, as two conditions first need to be met before this can go ahead. These are the creation of a mass market for Symbian OS phones and a more stable financial environment. Neither condition has yet been met. On the subject of competitors in the mobile device OS market, although many cite Microsoft as the company's main rival, Cockerton said the real competition is convincing companies to adopt the Symbian OS rather than their own proprietary systems. With regard to Microsoft's Smartphone platform, he said the challenge for them still is to get the customers. "I have yet to see a phone with Stinger," he added. << - Eric -