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To: slacker711 who wrote (33957)	4/8/2003 8:54:31 AM
From: Jon Koplik	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196543

Thought (hope ?) on RFMD news -- (RFMD is RF Micro Devices, Inc.) IF a company like China Unicom ordered 45 million GSM 1X handsets ... I wonder if RFMD would consider RFMD products for those handsets to be GSM business, or CDMA business ? Jon.

To: slacker711 who wrote (33957)	4/8/2003 9:29:33 AM
From: slacker711	Respond to of 196543

Japan Feb handset shipments up 25.3 pct yr/yr Tuesday April 8, 1:37 am ET biz.yahoo.com TOKYO, April 8 (Reuters) - Japan's domestic handset shipments posted strong growth for a fourth straight month in February as camera phones and high-speed third-generation (3G) services continued to spur upgrade demand, an industry group said on Tuesday. Handset shipments rose 25.3 percent from the same month a year earlier to 3.63 million units, the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA) said. "Camera phones are still pulling the whole industry forward," a JEITA spokeswoman said. "We occasionally have new services that decisively expand the market. Camera phones turned out to be the largest thing since i-mode (Internet-enabled phones)." The popularity of camera-equipped cell phones among Japanese shows no sign of waning. NTT DoCoMo's (Tokyo:9437.T - News) camera-phone users surpassed the nine million mark as of April 5, threatening the No.1 spot in the domestic photo-phone market held by J-Phone Co Ltd, a camera-phone pioneer and the Japanese unit of Britain's Vodafone Group Plc (London:VOD.L - News). J-Phone had 9.015 million camera phone users on March 31. As for 3G services, brisk upgrades among KDDI Corp (Tokyo:9433.T - News) users were also boosting handset demand, the spokeswoman said. KDDI's "au" mobile phone unit in March won 914,100 new subscribers for its 3G service based on the CDMA2000 1x format, developed by U.S. wireless technology firm Qualcomm Inc (NasdaqNM:QCOM - News), bringing the total number of its 3G users to 6.8 million. JEITA compiles the numbers from questionnaire responses from 16 electronics manufacturers that supply handsets to the three mobile operators. The following table shows shipments (in millions) and year-on-year percentage changes for the past four months (no data is released for individual companies): NOV DEC JAN FEB SHIPMENTS 3.777 3.961 3.837 3.633 Y/Y PCT CHANGE +17.0 +27.1 +17.2 +25.3