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To: Gregg Powers who wrote (18297)	11/13/1998 12:59:00 PM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Wait a minute... my head is spinning... are you saying that the absolute numbers are more important than the growth rate? You sound like me five days ago! Back then Qualcomm people said that growth is king and absolute numbers mean nothing... and GSM people said that the established base is actually very important. What a switch. You see, I've finally seen the light. Now I understand that the growth rate of a standard is very important. And I make this conceptual breakthrough only to discover that a leading CDMA proponent has turned his coat at the same instant. It's a bitter irony. I thought we had finally discovered common ground. I don't think that the head of GSM alliance is unbiased. Nor do I think that he is lying. I suspect that you know that no company or association can afford spreading blatant lies. The numbers are real. The CDMA subscriber numbers of WSJ are presumably real as well... that is an unbiased source. We are seeing a major explosion in GSM subscriber numbers together with a surprising fall in the subscriber numbers of 5-6 CDMA operators. I'm not sure this is "hyperbolizing". Tero