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To: DMaA who wrote (12172)	1/29/1998 1:14:00 PM
From: Steve Parrino	Respond to of 22053

<Anyone here follow Ericsson?> Started watching Ericy summer '96. Was 20 then, steady rise to around 40 in summer '97. Went to nearly 50 in the fall, then back down to 35 by December. Been bumping around 40 again this month. Their '96 annual report shows sales distribution 63% radio communications (GSM & TDMA), 19% public telecom (AXE switches), 12% business networks, 3% components, 3% microwave. 23% of Ericy business in Asia, according to the AR. With their wireless business, I guess Ericy is a little different play in the big battle at the convergence with LU, NT, CSCO, et al.

To: DMaA who wrote (12172)	1/30/1998 9:14:00 AM
From: Moonray	Respond to of 22053

Egghead Reports 3rd Quarter Results; Focuses Future on Internet Commerce; Name Changes to "Egghead.com" 09:04 a.m. Jan 28, 1998 Eastern SPOKANE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 28, 1998--Egghead, Inc., (NASDAQ: EGGS), dba Egghead Computer together with its Surplus Direct subsidiary, reported financial results for the fiscal 1998 third quarter ending December 27, 1997. The company also announced it will change its name to "Egghead.com, Inc.", shift its business emphasis to Internet commerce and close its retail store network due to declining revenues and continuing losses in the retail channel. guide-p.infoseek.com Is this a harbinger of the coming year? What about the people at the stores that are thrown out of work? Who is next, BestBuy? KMART? The next time you go shopping, will the store be there? o~~~ O

To: DMaA who wrote (12172)	1/30/1998 3:50:00 PM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

Compromise On Next Mobile Phone Standard Thursday January 29 3:13 PM EST PARIS (Reuters) - Mobile telephone makers, operators and regulators agreed on Thursday on worldwide standards for the next generation of high-performance cell phones, delegates at a telecommunications standards meeting in Paris said. The hard-fought compromise paved the way for the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), a new standard due to offer clients features like two-way text messaging, video and Internet access by the year 2002. It included elements from two competing proposals, one based on the W-CDMA technology backed by Finland's Nokia and Sweden's Ericsson and the other on TD-CDMA technology favored by Germany's Siemens and the U.S. group Motorola. "The goal of this proposal is to offer the competitive long-term solution for GSM evolution to UMTS," a statement by the European telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) conference said. Each rival had powerful backing from manufacturers and telecommunications authorities around the world, who wanted to ensure a smooth transition from GSM, the de facto world standard now, to a new generation. "The proposal has key elements of both proposals," GSM operators association chairwoman Adriana Nugter told Reuters. "It is very good that Asian, European and American manufacturers are happy with this proposal." The text of the approved proposal showed the compromise formula was basically the W-CDMA technology modified to ensure it works with GSM, has FDD/TDD dual mode operations and fits in the 2-to-5 megahertz band required for the U.S. market. The meeting brought together manufacturers, operators and regulators to end a dispute between Europe's mobile telephone manufacturers. The ETSI meeting voted for the W-CDMA technology on Wednesday, but failed to give it the 71 percent majority that ETSI rules require. The Nordic-backed W-CDMA technology is a CDMA standard fully compatible with the current Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) technology. The rival camp proposed TD-CDMA, a CDMA standard combining elements of the Time Division Multiple Access, used in Asia, Europe and other regions. The Nordic alliance is backed by Japan's DoCoMo, the mobile arm of Japan's largest telecom operator NTT. It also claims support from Britain's largest mobile phone operator Vodafone, British Telecom, Finnish Telecom, the Swiss national telecoms operator and Koninklijke PTT Nederland NV of the Netherlands. Siemens, on the other hand, is backed by Alcatel Alsthom, Italtel, Sony and Northern Telecom. Lucent Technologies said it had not yet made up its mind and saw advantages to both systems. Europe is the world leader in mobile telephony thanks to its GSM standard, which has become the de facto global standard and now has some 66 million subscribers in 110 countries. The United Nations-linked International Telecommunications Union (ITU), based in Geneva, is also studying standards for cellular telephony and is expected to recommend one of them by end of 1999. o~~~ O