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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (7710)	1/29/1998 7:34:00 AM
From: qdog	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

The US an undeveloped market? Then why are Ericsson and Nokia here with R&D facilities, manufactering facilities and mass marketing in the form of college bowl sponsorship or naming a football stadium "Ericsson Stadium"? Undeveloped you say. Technology is changing rapidly and "standards" become outdated before they are fully implemented. How many cellphones in the EU 5 years ago vs. the US. How about today? EU's PCS system up and running yet? The EU poor wireline infrastucture and phone straved Europe was only happy to get wireless. I can get service inthe US for wireline service in less than 48 hrs relatively cheap at less than $100, which is mostly a desposit. Been that way for years. Not so the EU. My last stay in London, a 5 star hotel was still using pulse dialing instead of DTMF! If I apply Moore's law to data telephony, TDMA based systems won't be able to handle the demand. Your GSM phone today will have to be replaced 18 month's because it is a channelized system. AS to your assertion of Motorola, they shot themselves in the foot long ago. They thought their name and bullying tactics could dominate the scene. IBM fell the same way. Don't discount Motorola, once they decide to "dominate" they will hurt everyone, with Ericsson and Nokia on the receiving end of lost market share. I still see plenty of Ericsson and Nokia analog phones for sale. I also meet GSM cellphone users in Houston opting for the analog over the digital. Coverage doesn't seem to be very good and complaints about the sound quality. Hate to tell you this, but the phone is Nokia. Maybe Ericsson's is better? You think competing standards confuses consumers. Not in America. We seem to think it's just great. Twenty phones?? Anybody in Europe/Asia/US/world sells their wares in this country. With a market dynamic enough to support four different standards, presently. But American companies are more than ready to manufacture all standards and multi standard phones. Even Nokia is a licensee to CDMAone. As to the FUD about phones being one stnadard for global use. It ain't so. Europe and US frequency plans are different. Hey Tero, this country split form Europe and European domination hundreds of years ago. We ain't in a hurry to have Europe save us from ourselves. We done rather well up to now.