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To: Dennis Roth who wrote (20970)	4/1/2002 4:19:40 AM
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French desperate to sell 3G licences news.independent.co.uk By Leo Lewis 31 March 2002 The French government is nearing desperation after its crushing failure to sell third-generation licences to mobile phone operators. With just a few weeks left to the final deadline, two of the four available slots have not received any bidders. As a last-ditch effort to get companies to make a bid, the French authorities have slashed the price of the licences. But even the price of 617m (£385m) has not so far done the trick. City analysts believe it's a significant sign of the times. While mobile companies during the bubble era were prepared to run up crippling debts to win the licences, operators have now adopted a more realistic view of the value of the technology. "This is a very different market now," explained one Crédit Lyonnais analyst. "You used to have huge availability of financing that is gone. And there were some unrealistic opinions on the value of these things those are gone." Two years ago, the five licenses available in the UK received a host of eager bidders, and the licences were eventually sold for £22.5bn. It was a similar story a few months later in Germany, when the average cost of a licence rose at auction to over 6bn (£3.75bn). Although the French mobile phone market has grown swiftly over the past three years, the licences to develop third-generation services are not especially attractive to outside bidders as France is now seen as a closed market. Orange which is in effect the mobile arm of France Telecom will be going for one of the licences, and SFR a consortium led by Vivendi and Vodafone will go for the other.

To: Dennis Roth who wrote (20970)	4/1/2002 4:51:30 AM
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KDDI doubles its wireless data speed in Japan cellular-news.com Japan's KDDI Corp. has launched its CDMA2000 1X network today, offering data transmission speeds of up to 144kbps. The new CDMA2000 service will cover 33 municipalities-including Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and 12 other major cities in Japan-and 477 regional communities. KDDI says that it plans to expand services gradually to other parts so that, by the end of 2002, 90% of the population will be within the CDMA2000 service area. Since CDMA2000 handsets can still offer conventional 64kbps data transmission even outside those areas offering 144kbps data transmission, customers can use their phones anywhere in the country without worrying about the area they are in. KDDI President Tadashi Onodera said the company aims to ship seven million handsets for the CDMA2000 1x by the end of March 2003, and the handsets are being priced at about half the cost of the rival DoCoMo's FOMA 3G handsets. The company is launching with five handsets and you can read about them at cellular-news.com Posted on 1-Apr-2002