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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (22476)	2/4/1999 1:42:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 152472

WLL> Bell Canada and WLL Plan to Compete for Brazil Phone Licenses Bell Canada and WLL Plan to Compete for Brazil Phone Licenses Sao Paulo, Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Bell Canada International, a unit of BCE Inc., and U.S. investment group WLL are preparing to compete in the auction for Brazilian fixed-line telephone operating licenses to take place April 23, Gazeta Mercantil newspaper reported. David Leonard, an executive at WLL, a Colorado investment group, said the group, which bought a license to compete with Brazil's Tele Norte Leste Participacoes SA in January, will buy a second license in the next scheduled auction. The Bell Canada group is expected to begin offering fixed-line service in eastern Brazil, including Rio de Janeiro this year. Brazil yesterday delayed for six weeks the deadline for Bell Canada International and other bidders to submit proposals to provide fixed-line telephone service in two areas, including Sao Paulo, the nation's largest state. (GM 2/4 B-4) NYSE/AMEX delayed 20 min. NASDAQ delayed 15 min.

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (22476)	2/4/1999 1:44:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 152472

China> China's Odd Telecom Reform Reuters 7:40 a.m. 4.Feb.99.PST BEIJING -- The Chinese government is trying to open up the world's fastest-growing telecommunications market to competition, but the old dog is having a hard time pulling off such a new trick. Chinese officials on Thursday confirmed plans to break up the monopoly China Telecom, but made clear it would not tolerate competition from foreign companies or cheap Internet phone providers. That could be bad news for companies that have already poured billions into the market, and for home-grown entrepreneurs. Wu Jichuan, the head of the Ministry of Information Industry, outlined plans to split China Telecom into three parts: paging, mobile, and fixed-line networks. He gave no timetable, and said the plan needed cabinet approval. Although Wu insisted his super-ministry wanted greater competition in the world's fastest-growing telecommunications market, he offered little encouragement to frustrated Chinese telephone users fed up with China Telecom's poor service and high prices. "We should not only provide the conditions for fair access and competition among operators but also protection for consumer rights," he told a news conference. Prices would be lowered, Wu said, but he offered no details. Foreign industry analysts were unimpressed. "We're going from one monopoly to three monopolies," said Duncan Clark, the head of BDA China, a consultancy firm. "Is that really progress?" One of Wu's top lieutenants at the ministry, Wang Jianzhou, told the news conference that China had shut a loophole that enabled foreign companies to skirt a ban on overseas investment in telecommunications networks. No further foreign investments would be approved, he said. Wang gave no indication on how Beijing would handle investments worth US$1.4 billion already made by foreign companies such as US long-distance carrier Sprint (FON). Dozens of foreign companies had entered the market under an innovative licensing, leasing, and consultancy arrangement with state-owned China Unicom, the struggling cash-starved competitor to China Telecom. "Since this kind of financing is irregular, we will no longer adopt this kind of financing," Wang said. But he was vague on how authorities would handle existing investments, saying only "we will put forward opinions suitable to the practical situation." Another official, Zhang Chunjiang, warned of a crackdown on Internet telephone providers that he said were robbing the state of revenues worth hundreds of millions of dollars. This was despite a landmark court ruling this month in favor of two entrepreneur brothers in southern China who used the Internet to challenge China Telecom by offering half-price international calls. "Some unlawful domestic operators are colluding with some overseas companies, and this has seriously eroded revenues of our country from international telecommunications," he said. Zhang said the government would control the Internet telephone market by licensing providers this year. Wu was formerly head of China Telecom and is portrayed by his domestic and foreign critics as a hawkish advocate of the company's continued existence as a near-monopoly. Hard-liners within the government argue for tight control over telecommunications, including foreign exclusion from the market, on the grounds of national security. Copyright© 1999 Reuters Limited.

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (22476)	2/4/1999 1:52:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 152472

Tero, We Got Growing Pains (good pains)> February 4, 1999 AirTouch adds 4.3M users in 1998 SAN FRANCISCO—AirTouch Communications Inc. reported net income for 1998 totaled $608 million, or $1.07 per share, compared with income of $394 million, or 78 cents per share, for 1997. Net income for the fourth-quarter totaled $130 million, or 22 cents per share, compared with income of $97 million, or 19 cents per share, for the fourth quarter of 1997. Revenues for the fourth quarter totaled $1.45 billion, up 54.5 percent from revenues of $941 million during the previous fourth quarter. Revenues for the year were $5.2 billion, a 44-percent increase from revenues of $3.6 billion during 1997. The company added 4.3 million proportionate subscribers, including 2.6 million outside the United States. About 1.5 million of those customers were added during the fourth quarter. The company said its total proportionate subscriber base is now 17.6 million customers. The company attributed its strong results to its international operations, which had 83 percent more subscriber additions, 43 percent higher revenues and 65 percent greater operating cash flow for the year, compared with the previous year. In the United States, the company had more than 1 million digital cellular customers, accounting for more than 40 percent of peak minutes. PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P.'s revenues jumped 190 percent and subscribers increased 129 percent. The company's paging operations had double-digit growth in revenues and cash flow, said the company. RCR NEWS

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (22476)	2/4/1999 2:01:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Another One Signs Up> February 3, 1999 Exclusive From Wireless Week Microsoft To License Technology To BT Wireless Week has learned that Microsoft Corp. plans to announce next week that it will license its WirelessKnowledge LLC technology to British Telecommunications plc for use in global standard for mobile communications networks. Sources told Wireless Week that BT plans to offer WirelessKnowledge through the carrier's GSM network. The deal gives WirelessKnowledge increased credibility among detractors who doubted the venture's stated goal of being interface agnostic. The U.S. carriers who are partners in the joint venture primarily use code-division multiple access technology, of which Qualcomm Inc. is a leading proponent. Sources said Microsoft will formally announce the deal with BT at next week's Wireless '99 trade show in New Orleans, sponsored by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. WirelessKnowledge is a joint venture between Microsoft and Qualcomm Inc. to provide remote access to corporate data. The venture recently announced its first application, Revolv, which will be offered by nine U.S. wireless carriers and allow subscribers with a variety of handheld devices to get their corporate e-mail, calendars and other data and even access the Internet.

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (22476)	2/4/1999 3:15:00 PM
From: marginmike	Respond to of 152472

Knock knock- dont you get it TERO. The war is over: CDMA and or WCDMA have won. When you regularly tout GSM jihad you are displaying your bias and lack of objectivity. I cant believe that any decent publication would publish your work. It's not that I dont think your inteligent or well written, but your so blinded by your bias it's almost funny. You contradict yourself regularly, and refuse to accept that there are other good companies other then NOKIA. I am still waiting for your coment on the new Q handsets? No comment as usiall!. I Admit I love the Q but I own NOKIA and have owned ERICY(my dad still does) as well as most of the rest of the major Cell phone co's. I have news for you Nokia is going to run into a wall when Ericy and MOT get their crap together. Do you think Nokia can continue at this pace for ever? Do you think they have some god sent ability to outcompete every company. Nokia did a great job but it's going to be ten times as hard now with actuall competition. IMHO