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To: slacker711 who wrote (19266)	4/1/2002 1:09:17 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 34857

Hi S711! BCP Impact, first let me drink a coffee and smoke a cigarette. I will be back.

To: slacker711 who wrote (19266)	4/1/2002 1:49:37 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

BCP has 2 million subscribers but Telesp Cellular has been taking subscribers from BCP, if it stops investing in the network, it will lose more subscribers. BCP -last November- had invited Nortel, Lucent, Qualcomm, Ericsson e Motorola to test 1XRTT. I July 2001 Ericsson had already tested GSM/GPRS. On February 7th, VP of Operations informed that BCP had not yet decided which technology, CDMA or GSM it would overlay. BCP will face problems with equipment vendors' financing. By not paying the debt, it faces creditors coming for it total debt -USD1.6billion- all at once. Additional facts: TIM is planning building GSM in Sao Paulo, BCP's main market. TIM plans will influence all the overlay decisions. Once TIM kicks off its deployment of GSM all others will follow theirs whatever their technology of choice. A Tele Centro-Oeste Celular (TCO) will start next April to test CDMA 1xRTT from Nortel (in 1,9 GHz) in Brasilia (DF) and Nokia's GSM/GPRS (in 1,8 GHz) in Goiânia (GO). Telesp Celular already launched 1XRTT in Sao Paulo. Telemar launched GPRS. Nortel lobbies for CDMA.

To: slacker711 who wrote (19266)	4/2/2002 10:19:30 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

Hi S711! Vésper -70,5% owned by Qualcomm- competes with Telefônica + Telemar in their respective areas. Qualcomm put in US$ 346 millions (through Vésper Holding), and bought the debts to suppliers Ericsson, Lucent and Nortel, according to some sources at 80% discount. After the debt restructuring the company is putting all its efforts in 'Vésper Portátil', with a single prepaid charge, called “Flat Fee”. The product is being commercialised via dept. stores. NOTE: I don't live in Vesper's area can't check a store but could have a look at its web page. I live in TIM and Global Telecom area, south Brazil) Vesper want to expand the sales channels with other big stores. Until the end of last year they wanted to get 500 thousand subs and reaching one million by 2002 end. Until then, Vesper executive said they intend to be offering their first CDMA 2000 1x, services at 144 kbps rate. Vésper to explain to regulator Anatel about its WLL mobile service. Telesp Celular complained to Anatel that that service was an infringement to the rules. A Vesper executive explained that: Vesper's network is fixed. If an user moves and the call can crop. They say they don't have traffic like a mobile network, neither roaming, hence Vesper's services can't be said to be a mobile service. If i get anything new that sheds light on Vesper -which is Venus in Latin for the first "star", as the Roman thought it to be, to appear in the sky. Hey where else you get this cultural trivia but here, hein? Cheers Elmat