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To: elmatador who wrote (25127)	6/6/2003 9:56:14 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 34857

< the new management team has pulled the obvious lever to get traffic on to its almost empty network.> Exactly, what else could they do, try to get customers by having a higher price?? (that too works but not in telecom, mainly parfumes, fashion stuff,etc) Additionally they have to avoid adding too many customers too fast to have, and train customer support, as well as people to monitor, track down and fix problems,etc,etc. And set their price level at the level it probably will be in a year or two, maybe three while avoiding too deep price-cuts, which would make those who just, some week ago, paid much more for the same service, contract or handset. While working on roaming-agreements. If it works out OK, then there is maybe no reason for the EU-competition-roaming-cavallery to make another ride through UK. (while remebering that UK customers should pay for the UK 3G auction costs, not customers in other markets) Ilmarinen Example, finnish "third" (fourth) operator DNA, timed their entry to have all of their network "brand new GPRS" as well as when "mast sharing", "channel renting" etc was OK, and then targeted two kind of customers, teenagers with very low DNA-DNA per-minute-costs, students with $15-all-you-can-eat-GPRS and then the same for corporations. (many students do not have a wire-line, but still need internet-access at home,etc) Clearly a lot of loss the first years, and in time it is a matter of how much of the market they can get and how efficiently they run their network, as well as negotiate roaming charges with the others for the regions where they too few customers. PS one more market, ordinary middle-class daddies who need internet acess from the summer-cottage during both weekends and summer-holidays. PPS I'm sure NEC is also happy, as they get a testground for interoperability, both handsets and back haul,etc,etc with Nokia equipment, plus all the other (GSM) stuff found in UK, some very old and weird, or just weird. (remember those 4-8 minute SMS-delay WAP-is-CRAP funny things)