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To: Don Edgerton who wrote (118852)	5/16/2002 1:37:53 PM
From: Don Edgerton	Respond to of 152472

Another comment from telecomtv.com Handsets LG Electronics forecasts 20% handset growth 16/05/02 09:02 - by Staff Reporter Despite a worldwide downturn in handset sales, Korean vendor, LG Electronics says it expects to grow sales by 10% to 20% this year. LGE senior vice president at the CDMA handset lab, Park Jong-Sool, says revenue from the CDMA handset division will come in at around US$2 billion this year, up from $1.7 billion in 2001. While LGE, like its competitors, is suffering from the Korean government’s continual ban on handset subsidies in their domestic market, Park says that the US market has proven to be a major growth market for the company. LGE is currently supply handsets to Verizon and Sprint PCS in the US. “The Korea market is saturated already,” says Park. “Growth will come in the US market, and to a certain extent, China and India.” He adds that as operators such as China Unicom move towards CDMA2000 1X, LGE’s experience in the technology will give it an added competitive advantage.

To: Don Edgerton who wrote (118852)	5/16/2002 1:51:28 PM
From: jackmore	Respond to of 152472

Yon says that W-CDMA has some advantages when deployed to support multimedia content. “For applications like video telephony, the 1.25 MHz carrier of 2G CDMA means that each frequency area can only support three users,” Yon said. “With CDMA’s soft-handover feature, that means users will be connected to multiple cell sites, hence the number of users you can have in any given area is severely limited.” Unless hard-handover is adopted in CDMA, video telephony is not possible. Can any of the tech gurus here attest to the veracity of this statement? TIA, jack