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To: Rajala who wrote (116678)	4/16/2002 5:30:33 AM
From: qveauriche	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Raj- I am not a technical person.My understanding of the promise of GSM1X for the GSM carriers is limited to the fact that it will require the carriers to scrap much less of their existing infrastructure to obtain in the here and now the benefits of 1X, which includes greater capacity for voice. As for it being easier to change the core than the radio interface, all of your points presume the present existence of a widely-deployed European WCDMA alternative, which is not here, and may never be here, and further that 1x is going to be relegated to some small Pacific Island and nowhere else. This parallel universe that Nokia has successfully imagined for a gullible press becomes more farcical with each additional 1x deployment and each additional announcement of a WCDMA delay. Change the handsets? No economies of scale? Raj- There aren't any WCDMA handsets in use in Europe in any meaningful quantity. Can't roam? how about multi-mode and multi-channel chipsets. The bottom line is this. there isn't a single point you made that doesn't pale in comparison to the devastation resulting from all of that leveraged spectrum remaining on the shelf as the months turn into years, and the years turn into..., all the while tens of billions of dollars of capital are tied up for years in a non productive use. Its as if back in 1999 the Euro carriers had taken billions out of thecapital markets and hidden it under their mattress. If switching out SIM cards worries you more than that, so be it. Hope you are well. Best Regards. PS- I just saw on television where some poor Finnish bloke got hit with a $103,000 speeding ticket. Whats up with that? Until you explain that one I don't want to hear anything else from you Yura-peein' types about Gitmo bay. :)