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To: Caxton Rhodes who wrote (9331)	3/21/1998 12:08:00 AM
From: Tim Klots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Thanks for the article. On a different note, the won is making slow and, what is best described as, unsteady progress. Hit new high for quarter against the dollar (1451 won/$), dna.lth.se. This is about a 20 % move off its low. Would be nice to close a bit higher from here by March 31. Tim K

To: Caxton Rhodes who wrote (9331)	3/21/1998 8:59:00 AM
From: Jim Lurgio	Respond to of 152472

3-g talk out of Cebit 20 MARCH 1998 DoCoMo to Drive W-CDMA into Asia NTT DoCoMo, the Japanese cellular operator which has helped drive the development of the third-generation mobile standard accepted by Europe and Japan, says it will only expand into overseas operations in areas where no other 3G operator exists. Instead, said senior vice-president Dr Keiji Tachikawa, DoCoMo will act as a partner and share expertise with local operators in other Asian countries, and save its financial efforts for continued research and development of new services for the Japanese market. "NTT DoCoMo is a Japanese company, so our primary goal is to give satisfaction to Japanese customers," he said. Despite its limited overseas ambitions, DoCoMo's interest in encouraging global acceptance of the 3G standard centered on wideband CDMA it has helped to foster remains strong. "We've succeeded in coming up with a good standard," Tachikawa said of the Europe's UMTS specification, which combines W-CDMA - developed jointly by DoCoMo, Nokia and Ericsson - with a TDMA-based system for asymmetric data transfer. He predicted that with the European Telecoms Standards Institute deciding to choose W-CDMA as the key ingredient in the spec, and with other Asian countries following suit, W-CDMA would form the basis of the 3G standard for two thirds of the world's population. Tachikawa also predicted that W-CDMA would make progress in the US, even though the majority of operators there seem to want to push ahead with the CDMAOne, or IS-95, alternative. "They are not willing to accept just one global standard. They have their belief in competitiveness," he said. Even so, US companies "are starting to use GSM, and that means W-cdMA will be a natural evolution for them", explained Tachikawa, who also believes that non-GSM operators, in the US and elsewhere, will migrate to W-CDMA. "In terms of the cost of migration there won't be much difference between moving to W-CDMA from GSM or from TDMA. We are a good example: We're a TDMA operator and our experience shows it is possible." DoCoMo plans to launch its 3G service in March or April 2001. Before then, the company is helping to drive development of dual-mode phones that will bridge he gap between older 2G networks and the new 3G networks. Dual-mode handsets supporting W-CDMA and one of GSM, PDC, CDMAOne or TDMA are in development and will not be difficult to build, Tachikawa said. However, he said, handset manufacturers as well as service operators will have to be "creative and ingenious" to achieve the full potential of 3G. NTT DoCoMo is already developing applications for 3G which will initially be available on 2G networks. An add-on feature that allows photographs to be sent via the 3G terminal directly from a digital camera is already close to operation, as is a car navigation system based on packetized data.