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To: brian h who wrote (51648)	7/20/2004 5:35:18 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

brian, what came first the chicken or the egg? <<3G did not take off was not because infrastructure issues. It is due to handset problems.>> That is the view of the operators. Ask a terminal vendor and he would say no one was building those networks, hence they didn't rush to bring the temrinals to market. By 2001 there were only test bed lab-type 3G networks. It needed Li Ka Shing to go out there and test the waters. <<I bet you Nokia and Ericcson are more than willing to migrate all GSM networks to 3G now than ever.>> So is Elmat who lives of building infrastructure. And need revenue too! <<The problem is they are paper tigers. They do not know how to make 3G handset work properly without helps from QCOM and Asian manufacturers.>> You have a point. NOK/ERICY et al, wanted to do control the industry, as they controlled the GSM 2G voice cum SMS only. But they couldn't. NOK and ERICY will end up like Apple Computer. Producing new technologies but no longer matter.