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To: mmeggs who wrote (20007)	12/18/1998 12:36:00 PM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Luckily, W-CDMA does not have to beat cdma2000 on merit. If it's going to be the upgrade for GSM operators, there will be an enormous built-in market. Operators tend to be extremely conservative - about 90% use their established providers for expansions and upgrades. I think we all know who the world's GSM operators are going to go with. And if that happens, W-CDMA will get the benefit of dominant global market share. Asia is going to follow Japan and China in their 3G standard decisions anyway. Tero