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To: Caxton Rhodes who wrote (3109)	4/8/1999 12:24:00 PM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5390

We all need dreams to survive, Caxton. But you could have picked one that is a bit more realistic. Like rescuing Claudia Schiffer from Iraqi kidnappers. Repeating that GSM is toast does not change reality - not even if you repeat it every day. And the reality is that GSM market penetration in Europe is growing beyond wildest forecasts - England is now expected to zoom above 35% by year's end. Italy passed USA in mobile phone market penetration recently - on the strength of its all-GSM approach. Reality is Singapore making another GSM expansion deal today - on the heels of half a dozen GSM expansion deals in the mainland China. Reality is China's only CDMA operator making the biggest GSM network deal in its history last week - only to be followed by GSM deals with an entirely new contractor, Nokia. I'm not even going into the half a dozen new GSM operator licenses in Eastern Europe this year - look it up on the net. There is not one independent market research firm that would claim that GSM can't reach 400 million subs by 2005. The only question is whether it can reach 500 or 600 million. Tero