To: elmatador who wrote (52309 ) 7/13/2009 5:28:18 AM From: Maurice Winn 2 Recommendations Respond to of 217860 I agree, and am delighted to see progress: <That's why I say: Nokia-Siemens is toast. They cannot compete with the Chinese duo Huawei and ZTE > Today, in a Telecom store, I held in my hot little hand a Telecom-branded ZTE cyberphone for the new W-CDMA network Telecom has launched. It might be my next upgrade after years with my decrepit old Samsung. I have been pleased to note that Nokia does not have such a large presence as they did a few years ago. For years I have been ranting about how good Huawei is and how that lazy good for nothing agent of mine in Hong Kong should tell Hu Jintao to quit goofing around with their dopey TD-SCDMA "Made in China" CDMA [which is really just cloned Qualcomm intellectual property, stolen as normal in China] and get Huawei to go Gung Ho with CDMA2000/OFDM 450MHz. Huawei has been building the third cellphone network in NZ which is about to launch service in August. Hooray for Huawei. Down with Nokia and L M Ericsson too. Hooray for ZTE as well. Thanks to Huawei, NZ is more advanced than China. You'd think China would let their own companies do a decent job; at least as good as they do in Hicksville places like NZ, but they don't. They seem to want things bad in China. Perhaps I should double my agent's pay and then maybe he'd get on with the job. It's hard to get good help these days. Hang on a minute, I did double it! No wonder the British Empire had such trouble = the natives were too busy lolling around. TJ's foreign affairs grandfather was another one! He got the British Empire out and the Japanese Empire in. Note how well Hong Kong did as a result of remaining "British" until a decade ago. Oh well, we do our best. If the local yokels mess it up, there's only so much we can do. Noblesse oblige, Mqurice