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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (17492)	10/31/1998 5:27:00 PM
From: brian h	Respond to of 152472

Tero, By the way, China will give all of its telcom contracts to any US based telcom. company no matter it will use CDMA, TDMA, or GSM based if US government promises to help China take over Taiwan immediately. Do you agree? At the same time to ban all Nokia phones sales in China. Chinese did that to AmWay and Disney's products. They will do so if they need to. So does India. These two counties are always independent in their own mind even if they are poorer countries. Just so happen Sweden and Finland do not try to lecture them how to run their own countries. They benefit. What does phone weight, standby time, sleek look got to do with it? My friend. Brian H.

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (17492)	11/1/1998 7:19:00 PM
From: Drew Williams	Respond to of 152472

<<There you go again... Brian and Skip, you are arguing that phones specs are not that important. That weight, design, display technology, user interface, infrared connectivity and other features are somehow frivolous and besides the point. For the love of god - they are the only point that matters.>> Tero is, of course, correct within his cultural and geographic frame of reference, which is to say the land of GSM monopoly. He is also, of course, equally incorrect in the USA and other places where GSM does not have monopoly status. Pricing, roaming arrangements, security, and sound quality are important, too, as he well knows. Perhaps the most important factor in the USA, IMHO, is who has the best marketing and distribution. Locally (southeastern Pennsylvania), the only serious candidates are Sprint PCS (CDMA) sold mostly through Radio Shack and their own stores; Comcast (legacy AMPS and TDMA) sold through their own stores, Radio Shack (legacy AMPS only) and many, many more independent dealers; and Bell Atlantic Mobile (legacy AMPS and CDMA) also sold through their own stores and many, many, many independent dealers. The only local GSM company, Omnipoint, appears to be a dead parrot (get it?).

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (17492)	11/2/1998 1:59:00 PM
From: J.B.C.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

>>As soon as Nokia unfolds the 61xx CDMA phone range and Motorola drops the CDMA Startac price under 300 dollars we'll see how insignificant the phone specs are.<< You once told us that it was in Nokia's interest to produce an inferior CDMA. What's this, now you'll say there new phone will blow the pants off the Q? Make up your mind! As I stated before, the deference in the handsets WILL disappear, but the capacity issue that the phone operators will face as the markets expand will not. The nod will go to CDMA, sorry Tero you can't have it both ways