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To: djane who wrote (4659)	5/18/1999 3:00:00 AM
From: djane	Respond to of 29987

RedHerring writeup on VOD Vodafone Group Biggest means best in the global wireless services business. www.vodafone.co.uk The impending combination of Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) , the largest wireless service company in the United Kingdom, with AirTouch Communications, the largest pure-play wireless service company in the United States, will create not only the world's largest wireless communications company, but also its sixth-biggest communications company -- wireless or wire line. Armed with a combined market capitalization of more than $100 billion (larger than BellSouth's, Deutsche Telekom's, or British Telecom's), along with the companies' extensive coverage and long list of shared interests in high-growth overseas markets, the merged Vodafone/AirTouch will be able to offer international roaming ability at a fraction of the narrowband satellite companies' costs. (See our profile of Iridium, page 148.) COPYRIGHT © 1998 RED HERRING COMMUNICATIONS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. [DISCLAIMER] AND [PRIVACY STATEMENT]

To: djane who wrote (4659)	5/18/1999 3:47:00 AM
From: djane	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29987

One-Way Fee System for China's Mobile Phone Subscribers Possible by Year's End (5/17/99) China's mobile phone subscribers could benefit from one-way charges on their cellular phones by year's end, said Deng Shoupeng, deputy director of China's State Information Expert Committee. Deng's comments, recorded at the 1999 Beijing Summit Meeting, were reported in the May 14 Diannao Ribao (Computer Daily). The change the "two-way" fee system for cell phone calls, where both the caller and the person receiving the call are charged, to a system where only the person making the call charged, has been a hot topic in the Chinese press recently. Early this year, word had it that the change would be implemented starting August 1. At the April Chinese-US Telecom Summit Meeting held in Guangzhou, officials from the Ministry of Information Industry, the agency that regulates China's telecommunications sector, said the change in billing would be nearly impossible to implement any time this year. Even though Deng did not give the exact source of his information, his recent statement raised eye-brows and hopes that the two way fee system will soon be changed. © ChinaOnline 1999.