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To: John Biddle who wrote (30907)	1/8/2003 5:30:54 PM
From: GO*QCOM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 196545

QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM) First Fiscal Quarter 2003 Earnings Release and Conference Call Wednesday January 8, 5:09 pm ET biz.yahoo.com

To: John Biddle who wrote (30907)	1/8/2003 5:42:32 PM
From: John Biddle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196545

Tata Tele, Bharti yet to ink interconnect agreement SANJAY ANAND TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 08, 2003 10:06:37 PM ] timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: Tata Teleservices and Bharti have not been not able to resolve the network interconnect dispute. So, Tatas mobile wireless in local loop (WLL-M) users and AirTel subscribers still can’t talk to one another in four telecom circles, including Delhi. Actually, Bharti has held back from connecting its cellular subscribers even with the fixed lines users of Tatas’ service, pending closure of network interconnect commercial deals. At Wednesday evening meeting with Bharti officials, Tatas have offered to meet ‘half-way the commercial demands of Bharti as well as other cellphone operators. The next meeting is expected early next week. ‘‘We have offered Bharti about 25 per cent of call charge for completing our calls on their networks as well as 25 per cent for completing their subscribers calls on our network, said Tata Tele v-p Swaminathan Krishnan. Bharti has been looking at 50 per cent share of Rs 1.20 per three-minute call. ‘‘We hope to hear from them early next week, Krishnan said. In fact, over the past two days, Tata Tele’s top officials, including MD S Ramakrishnan have held meetings with the telecom regulator, TRAI, to push for an interim commercial deal so that subscribers of both the companies can talk to each other. ‘‘After meeting cellular operators demands half-way, we are ready to securitise the balance amount they are asking for and let the authorities concerned decide the final outcome,” Ramakrishnan told The Times of India. ‘‘We are even open to an independent consultant working out a deal, he added. Cellphone companies have been opposing a government policy that has allowed basic phone companies to provide WLL-M, saying that it would increase competition in the sector on unfair terms. WLL-M attracts Rs 1.20 for three minute call, free incoming and a Rs 200 rental a month. Cellphone users, on the other hand, pay on average Rs 2 per minute for incoming and outgoing calls. (The charges vary depending on the tariff package) Besides, while calling a fixed line, cellphone users have to pay Rs 1.20 for three minutes to basic phone companies like MTNL, BSNL, whereas WLL-M users don’t have to pay anything for calling mobile phones. Thus, cellphone operators don’t gain anything from allowing companies like Reliance and Tata Tele to connect to their 10 million cellular subscribers. Tatas worry that a lack of network interconnect pact will inhibit the growth of WLL-M subscribers because lot of people want to call on mobile phones. To make matters worse, cellphone companies even stopped connecting WLL-M calls that were being routed to them via state-owned BSNL as a transit facility. Resolution of Tatas case is crucial because Bharti’s AirTel is the largest cellular operator with about 3 million subscribers and is present in all the four telecom areas as Tatas Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Besides, a resolution will lead to ending impasse between WLL-M and cellphone companies, bringing relief to telecom users. Tata officials believe that once they get a breakthrough with Bharti and Hutch, a way will open for an interim agreement and remove a big hurdle to the growth of WLL-M service.

To: John Biddle who wrote (30907)	1/8/2003 7:56:04 PM
From: rkral	Respond to of 196545

OT .. Is a European firm planning to use GPS? Excerpts from article: "IBM put a team of researchers to work on the project in the early summer with the goal of licensing it to an unidentified corporate customer in Europe." "A relay device about the size of a pack of chewing gum is set to work with the monitor. When a user's heart rate rises above a specified limit or stops altogether, the system kicks into action. The relay device sends a signal using Bluetooth,an increasingly popular wireless transmission standard, to a cell phone or personal digital assistant loaded with IBM software that the user must carry. The phone is programmed to call or send a text message to specific contacts in emergencies to initiate a rescue." ******** This product can only be truly useful if it uses U.S. GPS, available now, .. or the future European Galileo system, scheduled for 2008 availability. Which will it be? My bet is GPS .. even for a European customer. Ron