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To: Caxton Rhodes who wrote (22783)	2/9/1999 8:55:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

cdmaOne in Japan What will NTT think? Surely they won't think much of the leisurely Ericy approach of 'Oh, sometime over the next 6 months or so we might come to an agreement with Qualcomm.' Every cdmaOne customer is one that NTT can't get. I bet they are surprised how quickly it is taking off! And the MSM3000 has yet to really hit stride. More networks are due to start up in a month or so. Lookout NTT! Better go have a chat with Ericy. Review those cdmaOne specs quickly and place an order. You can't wait until WWeb trundles out sometime next century. The MSM3100, the ThinPhone and pdQ are on their way and what is NTT doing? From cdg.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- Japan cdmaOne™ Subscriber Numbers Booming; Exceed 400,000 Customers in Six Months NEW ORLEANS, LA, Feb. 8, 1999 -- The CDMA Development Group (CDG) today announced that cdmaOne now serves over 400,000 subscribers in Japan with approximately 140,000 subscribers added in December 1998 alone. With this growth, Japan is now playing a significant part in the acceptance of cdmaOne around the world. -------------------------------------------------------------------- We already know from South Korea that economic problems don't affect cellphone sales. Since South Korea had a serious problem and Japan's is relatively superficial, you can expect even less slowdown in Japan than Korea. This should be fun. Meanwhile, tri-mode multi-band: rcrnews.com The words are mangled. 'Mode' means CDMA, TDMA, GSM, Analog, Globalstar, Iridium or whatever. 'Band' means 800MHz, 820MHz, 1900Mhz, 2100MHz or whatever frequency is used. Sure there is some temporary need for cdmaOne/analogue, or cdmaOne/GSM or TDMA/analog/GSM, but this is not cost free. As buildout continues and analog dies and Globalstar comes in, multimode will be not much use. I suppose eventually we'll get to software radios and they'll hunt all over the place but the current efforts are clumsy attempts to solve problems in the handsets rather than in the networks. Mqurice