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To: carranza2 who wrote (24175)	3/13/2003 11:32:40 AM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 34857

March 2003: First Commercial Dual-Mode 3GSM Handsets Available Later than some anticipated but earlier than some FUDsters predicted: Irwin Jacobs, president of Qualcomm, was so eager to predict that production of W-CDMA equipment will be delayed by as much as three years, that he hardly touched his smoked-salmon pillows over a lunch in London this week. He had flown there straight from the Cannes GSM Congress ... Jacobs predicts that W-CDMA infrastructure and handsets will not be available in volume until 2005 – three years later than expected. That would leave many European mobile network operators forced to re-evaluate their commitment to W-CDMA - Dawn Hayes, the 451 GMT Feb 22, 2001, 05:56 PM \| ET Feb 22, 2001, 12:56 PM - QCOM: 56-1/2, DN 10-7/16. ... It could be argued the Qualcomm's Jacobs was simply engaged in a marketing ploy to promote his favored CDMA-2000 at the expense of W-CDMA. But when you're dealing with a highly valued stock such as QCOM (45 P/E on FY01 earnings), delivering on future promise is critical, and 3G is the future promise for QCOM right now. - Greg Jones, Briefing.com, ET Friday Feb 23, 2001 11:56 AM - >> Hutchison 3G to roll out in UK and Italy Robert Budden Financial times March 12 2003 UK and Italian consumers will become the first European users to make calls on a 3G network this weekend as Hutchison 3G begins its long-awaited delivery of handsets to customers. Italians will receive their first phones by the end of this week and the first UK customers are expected to be given their handsets this Saturday. The news marks the end of a turbulent launch process for the new entrant, which has been plagued by technical glitches and delays in receiving handsets. Hutchison 3G, controlled by Hutchison Whampoa, the Hong Kong conglomerate, had planned to launch its 3G service in the UK and Italy last September. Despite entry level prices per mobile phone of about €600 ($600) just over 70,000 customers in the UK and Italy - getting on for half of the 200,000 who have so far expressed an interest in the new service - are understood to have committed to buy a phone. However, early signs indicate that the launch, the first commercial 3G service anywhere in Europe, is proving more popular with the Italians than the British, underlining the importance of cultural considerations in operators' 3G plans. Analysts said they were heartened by the higher than expected take-up in Italy and that the imminent delivery of handsets to customers demonstrated confidence by Hutchison that its flagship services, such as live video calls, were functioning to a high standard. During trials, Hutchison 3G experienced a number of problems, including "dropped calls" when users move between base stations. This problem is thought to have been largely resolved, although users who move outside a 3G coverage area into a wider 2G area are still expected to experience some brief call outages. A total of 700,000 handsets made by Motorola and NEC will be delivered to the operators by the end of May. Hutchison has previously stated that it hopes to have 2m customers in the UK and Italy by the end of this year. << - Eric -