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To: slacker711 who wrote (54317)	8/9/2006 9:52:36 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 196548

Good points. Despite all the lawyerly procedural wrangling, the parties know reasonably well what their ultimate prospects are. Whenever I get a new case and have studied its basis, I can generally tell the parties what the result will be within reason. Sometimes I think of litigation as merely delaying the inevitable, as wrangling for tiny bits of advantage. Few suits really involve truly contested major points on which the parties are truly ignorant of the ultimate result. Juries of course add a tremendous amount of uncertainty to the process, but courts of appeal review crazy verdicts. In this case, tiny bits of advantage mean lots of dollars. Nokia is acting like it desperately wants every tiny bit of advantage possible. Because it probably needs it. I might be totally off on my assessment but these are merely a few intuitive thoughts based on 30 years of litigation experience. None of it at the global level at which Q and NOK are playing, so dose these thoughts with the appropriate level of NaCl.

To: slacker711 who wrote (54317)	8/9/2006 10:55:39 AM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196548

A potential catalyst for the 4th quarter. Churn doesnt always go up, but handset sales tend to go up as companies try to keep their own subscribers. digitalmediaasia.com Mobile mumber portability to start on 24 October, says DoCoMo 09/08/2006 by Parthajit Print \| Email Colleague \| Add Comment \| Comments (0) Mobile communications company NTT DoCoMo and its eight regional subsidiaries, KDDI, Okinawa Cellular Telephone Company and Vodafone KK will implement mobile number portability on 24 October. KDDI is a diversified telecommunication operator that provides both mobile communication service and broadband service. Vodafone KK, to be renamed Softbank Mobile on 1 October 2006, is a mobile operator offering a range of mobile voice and data services. Okinawa Cellular Telephone Company provides portable and car phone services in the Okinawa region.