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To: Sawtooth who wrote (18427)	11/17/1998 10:21:00 AM
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PCS Seen Gaining On Rival(Gsm)> PCS seen gaining on rival network South China Morning Post About half of mobile-phone subscribers using GSM-based systems will move immediately to companies operating PCS networks when mobile number portability is introduced early next year, according to Sunday's deputy chairman Richard Siemens. "Fifty per cent of GSM users will move to PCS right away, the savings are so great of having PCS," he said. Mobile number portability means customers can change networks while maintaining their present number. The target date for introduction of the service is March next year. Established GSM providers are charging about $140 more a month for a benchmark 100 minutes of air time than the cheaper PCS players, which include Sunday. Mr Siemens is chairman of Distacom, which has a controlling stake in Sunday. He said it was likely that if the GSM operators did not bring down tariffs, their revenues would collapse as customers left to join less expensive services. "That doesn't mean they can't get them back," he said. But it meant they would have to drop their prices to match the PCS services. (Copyright 1998) _____via IntellX_____ Publication Date: November 17, 1998 Powered by NewsReal's IndustryWatch ...back to top