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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (1664)	3/23/1999 10:49:00 AM
From: brian h	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Tero, I am not sure about the kick back practice form US companies. Can you tell me form you Nokia or ERICY sources? It is not the Chinese will pour its own money into this deal. It is US companies and operators have to lend money first then get it back from commercial operations if they are successful. It is the practice that Nokia and ERICY played before. Are you sure you are not talking bad to your beloved companies? Anyway a competition is healthy. We will see how it develops. US and China's meeting in US will give us the result. Best, Brian H.

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (1664)	3/23/1999 11:26:00 AM
From: Clarksterh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Tero - Of course it's worrying - when big nations start pressuring weaker countries into favoring their companies we are all entering a slippery slope. But in the end the marketplace will decide who succeeds and to what extent. That's why I'm not too worried about mercantilism,; it's eventually self-defeating. The big bad US??!! As a US citizen I can hardly feel bad about this. If the agreement was that they would only take US suppliers then I might feel guilty, but there is no reason that Nokia and Ericsson, like Samsung, Hyundai, LG, Nortel, Fujitsu, NEC, ... couldn't supply CDMA infrastructure. It's no one's fault but their own, just as it's no one's fault but Motorola's that they didn't complete the transition to GSM effectively. Also, I might add that you didn't seem too upset about government intervention when the news coming out of China was that they would, by policy, exclude CDMAOne. My personal view is that governments should stay out of such things unless some other government starts something and then the government of the country being hurt is entitled to tit-for-tat. (Of course the US has a more leverage than Sweden, but tough titty (so to speak).) Clark