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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (61585)	4/4/2005 4:04:33 AM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

"Can you hear me now?" Barely...something about cell phone companies...screw driver ..screw over ...rip off.... Maybe we should stick to email. ***** My brother lives in the Tampa, Florida area, which is dead flat, so you need very few towers to serve a huge area, AND people have less money than Oregon or the SF Bay Area. They had SIX carriers at one time, you would walk through the mall and there were six booths hawking cell phones... He pays about 30-40% of what I pay.

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (61585)	4/4/2005 5:07:30 AM
From: shades	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Chinese Huawei Takes on U.S. Telecom Market hardware.slashdot.org Posted by timothy on Sunday April 03, @03:49PM from the thattawei dept. ChipGuy writes "With funds on loan from the Chinese government, Chinese equipment giant, Huawei is undercutting big rivals like Cisco and Nortel, and is using money to buy its way into the U.S. market. Overseas in Europe and Asia it already has become a major force. There are parallels with auto industry and home appliances. It took a little while before prices became a determining factor and shifted growth away from North American vendors. Telecom will go through the same curve. Huawei is curently selling EVDO phones for about $130 and WCDMA phones about $250 which is about 30% less than everyone else on the market. Huawei's agenda is pretty clear - get business and sales at any cost. And that means bad news for already struggling telecom industry."