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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (1579)	3/18/1999 7:13:00 AM
From: alruss	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Nokia, IBM, Sabre Smart phone CNBC just said Nokia announced a Smart Phone deal with Sabre (Airline Reservations) and IBM. Phone will announce plane delays and cancellations and allow rebooking thru Sabre/internet connection. 2/1 also mentioned

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (1579)	3/18/1999 8:28:00 AM
From: Valueman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

Once again Tero, you take random bits of unrelated info and attempt to make a case. The Japanese problems were covered long ago, and stemmed mostly from a poor installation of infrastructure by our friends at Motorola. Qualcomm came to the rescue there. I don't think adding 140,000 subs in December is any sign of "badly flopping." What is the current churn rate there? Do you know? Do you have current numbers? Sprint was accused of the same thing when they started. They will soon be adding a million subs in a quarter. Denial is avoiding any talk about Nokia's handset flaws. How about their beyond awful CDMA offering? Haven't heard much about it except something about keeping all the goodies for GSM and letting CDMA phones follow. Pure bull. You should work for investor relations. The quality problems may have surfaced in some sort of tabloid, but Nokia is not denying it. Information Chief Tapio Hedman of Finnish Nokia has stated in the Swedish newspaper Finanstidningen that Nokia will study the problems in their new mobile phones. According to some estimates, approx. 16% of Nokia's phones have flaws. According to Swedish newspaper Expressen, Nokia has had problems in the most sold models of 5110, 6110 and 6150 as well as in the top model 8810. According to Hedman, the display problems have been due to a component which has been identified and changed before the end of 1998. However, some retailers may still sell flawed phones. I guess they are "studying" the problem unearthed by that tabloid. Is that newspaper prone to making up quotes from fictional Finns?