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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (846)	8/6/1998 2:18:00 PM
From: marginmike	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

Tero I have no bones that NOKIA is a great GREAT company. However GSM was set up with different properties to make it incompatible with US GSM and TDMA. Europe did this to create a protected market to create phone system. It worked and NOKIA benifited. It is trying to do it again with CDMA. I admit Europe is a backward ass place to do business. Im there 2-3 months a year. This is not a Nokia is better then Qualcom debate, but a hey thats a good company(nokia) and so is that one (qcom), and that ones not (ATT,Erickson,Mot). I openly admit praise for Nokia, but I think Qcom is a fantastic company to. You on the other hand refuse to except Qcom's greatness. Qcom is growing faster then Nokia, It pioneered next wave of technologies, It like Nokia is a dacvid vs many goliaths. However you bash, and bash, and bash. Qualcom and Nokia are the pioneers in CDMA handsets, welcome it as a friendly realation not a threat. There is plenty of customers and our competitors are loosing pace. If you like it or not Qcom isnt going away and nobody is going to circumvent IPR'S. There will be agreements and compromizes and then finally a standard. At that point Q and Nokia will battle it out on the merits of phones and quality. Using a football analogy its only 20 minute into the game, and Q is down a few goals, but the have the more talanted team(technology) and the best goal scorer(CDMA). They might not win, but the match is far from over

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (846)	8/10/1998 12:22:00 PM
From: BOGEY	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Nokia Signs USD 200 Million Frame Agreement for GSM Expansion in the Czech Republic BusinessWire, Monday, August 10, 1998 at 11:04 HELSINKI, Finland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 10, 1998--In an agreement valued at almost USD 200 million, Nokia and the leading Czech operator EuroTel Praha have signed a three year frame agreement for a GSM 900 network expansion. Nokia will remain as the sole supplier. Nokia will deliver its high capacity mobile switching centres, base station controllers, base stations and the Nokia Artus Data Communication Server (DaCS) for advanced network services such as Internet access via GSM phones. Nokia will also provide extensive customer services for implementation, operation and optimisation of the system. "Nokia has been our supplier for NMT network infrastructure since 1991 and we have been co-operating with Nokia for provision of the GSM 900 network since 1996. This frame agreement further deepens the good co-operation and close partnership established during the last seven years," says Mr Jamie Macdonald, acting Chief Executive Officer, EuroTel Praha. "We are very happy that Nokia and EuroTel are continuing their co-operation for the development of EuroTel's network, which will provide a range of comprehensive services to their customers. Subscribers will place heavy demands on the range and quality of EuroTel's voice and data services both now and in the future. This long term agreement and excellent partnership together with the most competitive customer solutions will grant the market leadership of both companies in the Czech market," comments Mr Jukka Honkanen, Managing Director, Nokia Telecommunications, Czech Republic. EuroTel, the first GSM operator in the Czech Republic, launched its network, supplied by Nokia in July 1996. EuroTel now has more than 450,000 customers. They are also operating a NMT 450i cellular netwo