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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (15034)	9/15/1998 7:48:00 PM
From: Gaffer	Respond to of 152472

From this month's Fortune Magazine... The 100 Fastest Growing Companies - Qualcomm #10 in sales growth; #10 in market capitalization.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (15034)	9/15/1998 8:30:00 PM
From: Spartsker	Respond to of 152472

To all.....RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD) 16 7/8 +3/8: supplier of high-volume, low-cost, proprietary radio frequency integrated circuits anticipates that fiscal Q2 revenue and earnings will come in ahead of expectations; sees Q2 earnings between $0.09 and $0.10 a share, ahead of the First Call mean estimate of $0.06 a share; revenues are projected around $28 to $30 mln, also ahead of Wall Street estimates of $25.5 mln; in the year-ago period, it earned $0.05 a share on revenues of $9.16 mln; see press release.....Briefing.com They are component suppliers for wireless including CDMA Main customers Nokia (42%), Lucent, Mototorola Tom

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (15034)	9/15/1998 9:19:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 152472

Maurice, Sorry, I realized the date after the fact. Besides it sounded good! Regards, Michael

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (15034)	9/15/1998 9:25:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 152472

Maurice, Motorola & China, (Thanks for the 2nd chance) Motorola restructures to foster 'team culture' China Daily [ Motorola Inc ] hopes its new North Asia Centre on north Chang'an Avenue in Beijing will symbolize a fresh start for the company's business in China. Motorola has often been criticized for setting up "silos" within the company, meaning that each sector is a discrete body that discourages the sharing of resources and teamwork between different sectors. However, like the many Chinese enterprises that are laying off workers and consolidating their structures, Motorola (China) is renewing itself to stay competitive. "We will do some consolidation and reorganization of the cellular and pager businesses, changing the focus of some of our groups here," said Ronald W. Thomas, vice-president and general manager of Motorola Greater China Cellular Subscriber Division. Thomas said his group will share some functional teams with the paging business side, or have personnel, finance, IT and service forces working for both. "One of my major tasks here is to develop a strong team-based culture," said Thomas, who took up his position in July. A number of employees will be laid off due to the restructuring, although Thomas said the company's Volunteer Severance Pro-gramme will mean that job losses would be kept to a minimum. The restructuring in China is part of Motorola's global strategy to adapt to a new era characterized by networking and to ensure its products have Internet capability. The company combined its communications-oriented businesses into a single group -- Communications Enterprise (CE) -- in July, incorporating six sectors covering cellular, paging, two-way radio, space, global customers and networking business. Motorola has been on a downward cycle worldwide, which many believe was a result of the company's slow transition from analogue to digital technologies. However, in China its performance has remained strong. In cellular business, Motorola is still the leader in the Chinese market, but competitors are closing in. Motorola was the overwhelmingly dominant cellular phone supplier in China in the early 1990s. However, its slow transition to digital handsets let European companies like Ericsson and Nokia take a significant slice of the rapidly growing Chinese cellular market in the past three years. According to a report from market research company Sainuo, Motorola had a 34.4 per cent share of the cellular market in China in the first six months this year, followed by Ericsson with 28.6 per cent and Nokia with 22.1 per cent. In GSM, Motorola's share is 32 per cent, while Ericsson and Nokia account for 30.4 per cent and 23 per cent, respectively. Thomas was involved in setting up Motorola's cellular business in China in the late 1980s and helped the company become the leader in China's cellular market in the early 1990s. He said Motorola's cellular business is not as unfavourable as some think, arguing that its growth was simply a bit slower than it should be. He said the growth of sales of its digital handsets is over 50 per cent annually, and overall growth is between 30 per cent and 35 per cent. In terms of problems in Motorola's operations in China, Thomas said distribution channels need to be rationalized as "there are too many conflicts." He said some distributors compete with one another with the same products and cause prices to fluctuate. (Copyright 1998) _____via IntellX_____ Publication Date: September 14, 1998 Powered by NewsReal's IndustryWatch ...back to top

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (15034)	9/15/1998 9:28:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 152472

Maurice, Some GSM bull----. Metawave Communications Taps Victor Liang to Lead Expansion into GSM Markets; Liang Will Lead Efforts to Develop and Market Smart Antenna Systems For GSM Networks BUSINESS WIRE REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 15, 1998--Metawave(tm) Communications Corp., a provider of spectrum management solutions for wireless communications, today announced that Victor K. Liang has joined the company as senior vice president, GSM. Mr. Liang will lead the company's expansion into the GSM market as head of a new organization that will design, manufacture and market smart antenna systems for GSM networks worldwide. "We are developing a significant new business opportunity for Metawave," said Bob Hunsberger, Metawave president and CEO. "Victor's demonstrated ability to build a large-scale wireless business, combined with his firsthand knowledge of the GSM market, make him the ideal choice to lead this new organization." Before joining Metawave, Mr. Liang held numerous senior executive positions at Siemens. Most recently, he served as managing director of Siemens Shanghai Mobile Communications where he was responsible for building Siemens' GSM infrastructure and handset business in mainland China. Previously, he led Siemens' entry into the U.S. wireless market as vice president of the wireless products group at Siemens Stromberg-Carlson. Metawave's SpotLight(tm) 2000 smart antenna system is currently designed for the CDMA and AMPS networks found in North America and South America. Under Mr. Liang's leadership, Metawave will develop smart antenna systems that are compatible with GSM base station equipment, bringing the capacity expansion benefits of smart antennas to GSM networks. As the most widely deployed digital technology, GSM served 48.5 million subscribers at the end of 1997, according to the Strategis Group, and Allied Business Intelligence estimates that GSM will account for over 20 percent of worldwide subscribers by 2000. With demand for GSM service growing rapidly, GSM operators face capacity and call quality problems that must be addressed quickly and economically in order to ensure successful network growth. About Metawave Headquartered in Redmond, Wash., Metawave Communications Corporation designs, develops, manufactures and markets spectrum management solutions for the wireless communications industry worldwide. The company's spectrum management solutions, consisting of smart antenna systems, applications software and engineering services, enable cellular service operators to increase overall network capacity, reduce network operation costs, better manage network infrastructure and stimulate end user demand through improved system quality. Metawave's SpotLight(tm) 2000 smart antenna system is deployed in networks in North America, South America and Europe. For more information, call 1-888-METAWAVE or visit the company's Website at metawave.com. Metawave(tm) and SpotLight(tm) are trademarks of Metawave Communications Corporation. (Copyright 1998) _____via IntellX_____ Publication Date: September 15, 1998 Powered by NewsReal's IndustryWatch ...back to top