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To: Caxton Rhodes who wrote (1473)	2/5/1999 12:47:00 AM
From: H.A.M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Nokia Expects 1 Billion Global Wireless Subscribers By 2005 Dow Jones Newswires February 4, 1999 SAN FRANCISCO -- Nokia Corp. (NOKA) said Thursday it expects worldwide wireless subscriptions to grow to 1 billion by the year 2005. During a presentation at NationsBanc Montgomery Securities' conference on technology, Nokia's president of mobile phones in the Americas, Kari-Pekka Wilska said "this is a pretty big forecast given landline networks are close to 1 billion (subscribers) today." The world's largest cellular handset manufacturer plans to make a broad product offering of mobile phones. "To be a major player, you have to be in all technologies. We have introduced products for all categories, basic to high-communicators," Wilska said. - Cecilia Kang; 650-496-1367

To: Caxton Rhodes who wrote (1473)	2/5/1999 2:38:00 AM
From: Clarksterh	Respond to of 34857

Caxton - I would call the cdma overlay a success not an "experiment". In fairness we probably ought to refer to it as a trial just as the W-CDMA installations happening now are 'trials'. The overlay probably wasn't a full-up system. However, having said that, the most difficult parts of the overlay (the RF, handoff, ...) are probably almost identical to run-of-the-mill CDMAOne and thus it didn't need to be stressed to the same degree as the current W-CDMA. Just my thoughts. Clark