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To: bananawind who wrote (30370)	5/19/1999 5:01:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 152472

Japan> Tokyo, May 19 (Bloomberg) Kyocera Corp. by: nbfm 20665 of 20666 Kyocera Corp., the world's largest maker of ceramic casings that insulate semiconductor parts, is expected to report lower earnings for the year ended March 31 because of an industry slump in electronic components that forced the company to cut its prices.. . . Mobiles Kyocera also stands to benefit from a continuing increase in sales of digital cellular phones that Kyocera supplies to affiliate DDI Corp., the third-largest telecommunications company in Japan, and IDO Corp. Subscribers to DDI's cdmaOne service will increase five-fold to 2.5 million by the end of March 2000, DDI chairman Yusai Okuyama predicts. Kyocera owns a 25 percent stake in DDI. CDMA, or code division multiple access, is a mobile phone standard developed by Qualcomm, a U.S. cellular phone maker, and promises users better sound quality and larger capacity for data transmission than current cellular phones. The growth in CDMA handsets contrasts with the decline the past two years in users of PHS phones, which Kyocera also makes. PHS phones are cheaper to buy and use than cellular phones but have less range and reliability. Currently, 33.5 percent of Japanese own a cellular phone compared with 4.6 percent who own a PHS phone.