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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (725)	7/2/1998 4:35:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

Tero, we have agreement on something. 50% is not saturated. I believe everyone will have a cellphone/Nokia 9000 cdma2000/Anita[TM] type system as well as little Earcells[TM] for voice only. Of course the cost has to reduce much more, which it easily can, and the quality improve, which with cdma2000 it easily will. Not only that, people will upgrade every year or two as new and better models come out. Nokia has done a wonderful job and no doubt will continue, unless they get led down the road to ruin of kleptomania over IPR rather than continuing to do what they have admirably done. If I were Qualcomm, I would refuse Ericsson a licence because of their immoral behavior [or charge them a huge fortune]. I would tell Nokia to stop the nonsense or go the same way. The Lucent chairman of course reflects his employer's position in standards body discussion. As do the Ericsson people [characters] and others. My experience of standards bodies in the oil industry, in the EC and in NZ is that they are bureaucratic,lowest common denominator, expensive, time wasting failures who tend to reflect some aspect of power - often political, rather than good technical or economic sense. Tero, you can't possibly think that any member of these YETI committees are neutral. If they pretend that, then they are hypocrites. I hope you find the time to reconsider the IPR issue, because it is central and you have not yet found your way around your inconsistencies - are you self-delusional or dishonest. To soften that a little, we are all self-delusional, which we call Ooooppps!! So I hope you are able to claim ignorance about IPR in Nokia rather than the other choice. Your post is exactly my thinking on the whole mobile market, but for worldwide. It will take a few years for India to be 100% but a few decades from now, it should be getting close. It will be tremendously exciting for successful companies like Nokia, Qualcomm, Lucent and others. But all must run fast to keep up. And not make blunders like Motorola and Ericsson. Do you think Nokia will avoid arrogance? The pitfall of so many great companies. Already with their thieving attitude to IPR, they are showing signs of it. I'll watch with interest. Maurice [So, tell me, did you misunderstand or lie about Nokia's joyful giving out at no charge all of their IPR to whomsoever wishes to avail themselves of it? Any may clone a Nokia handset, call it a Nokian and they wouldn't object. Tero, you aren't crazy, so please explain instead of avoiding the issue.]