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To: Jon Koplik who wrote (4979)	7/22/2002 5:59:22 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12231

New Zealand 890MHz spectrum auction round one complete and Vodafone is top of the leader board with a bid of NZ$2,050,026 which is US$1 million. Watch the action here: auction.med.govt.nz My guess is that Vodafone will win it and build a GSM1x network, avoiding the need to build a more expensive and less successful W-CDMA [judging from Doh!CoMo's efforts with W-CDMA compared with the great success of cdma2000 in Korea]. While they wonder what to do, the extra spectrum will give them room to muck around with GPRS, which they have been selling [advertising and I assume therefore selling - but perhaps as a defensive effort against the incipient Telecom New Zealand 1xRTT launch, which is supposed to happen now or have already happened]. Meanwhile, Globalstar continues to battle on! Ancillary Terrestrial Component lobbying continuing Message 17775515 Mqurice