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To: Uncle Frank who wrote (542)	11/4/2002 11:30:23 AM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 562

Frank, << Is Dolphin Telecom a big player in Europe? >> Not yet. This is pretty old (1 year) but I'm not sure much has changed. >> CDMA to Ride to Europe on Dolphin October 23, 2001 Timo Poropudas Nordic WirelessWatch mobile.commerce.net San Diego, California based Qualcomm, the champion of CDMA technology, is bringing its battle against ever larger GSM community to Europe. According to the Financial Times newspaper a Qualcomm led consortium has launched a bid to use the failed public mobile radio operator Dolphin as a vehicle for European CDMA services. The Inquam consortium in interested in using Dolphin’s radio spectrum in the UK and France to offer CDMA-based voice and data services to European business users. After filing for bancrupcy protection Dolphin Telecom was placed in the hands of administrators Deloitte & Touche on 1 August. Since 1998 the company has been providing mobile voice and data services for businesses using a digital TETRA network supplied by Nokia. TETRA, Terrestial Tranked Radio, is an European standard for mobile voice and data network developed mainly for emergency and other auhorities. By the end August 2001 Dolphin had 76,000 UK subscribers. In recent years Dolphin has been put under severe competitive pressure by the booming popularity of GSM services and their perceived advantages in terms of coverage and ease of use over its own TETRA offering. The Inquam consortium has already indicated that it would look to migrate the Dolphin network to the next-generation cdma2000 standard as quickly as possible. However, Inquam is expected to face stiff competition for Dolphin’s assets from its Canadian parent company Telesystem International Wireless, which owns 81.5 percnet of the UK operator. TIW is said to have already been in discussions with Dolphin’s administrators. << - Eric -