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To: mmeggs who wrote (15779)	9/30/1998 11:13:00 AM
From: tero kuittinen	Respond to of 152472

These are -97 numbers for digital phone sales growth. I was talking about total handset sales growth numbers in -98, Europe vs. USA, as reported by The Economist. In US, the fall in analog phone sales is not being offset all that well by digital handset sales - in Europe there wasn't below 40% growth even when analog decline was at its peak. Tero

To: mmeggs who wrote (15779)	9/30/1998 12:24:00 PM
From: mmeggs	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

The point was that digital handset growth in the US is, as the article notes "explosive." Granted this was for 1997, but it would be hard to list 1998 numbers, when the year still has three months to go. And the projection is that it (IS-95) will continue to take share from competing systems: ""While IS-136 TDMA and GSM still represent significant market opportunities for vendors, looking forward, IS-95 CDMA is expected to be the largest segment comprising 52 percent of the U.S. digital market by 2002," said Hoffman." As noted, this is US only. But this type of growth does nothing but good things for CDMA and Q in particular. meggs