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To: cooksbay95 who wrote (129808)	5/29/1999 8:22:00 AM
From: D.J.Smyth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

this may interest y'all. computer sales in Finland are booming/not so important that it's happening in such a small populated country per se. but of importance is that in the last four years Finland's mobile phone market went from 15% usage to around 45% of the population. along with mobile phones came automatic debiting machines/credit card explosion which are now being preceded by an explosion in personal computers. Finland now considers itself an 80% cashless society (few use cash now). Since the US is where Finland was four years ago relative to mobile phones (and capability, for that matter), the same progression could happen here. The move in the U.S. to mobile is becoming more predominant, along with that the move to debit/credit. In Finland they found that these three technologies appear to grow as a consequent and/or benefit of the other. Although the US has more personal computers than Finland does now, it would seem possible that a further expansion of the mobile phone market would precipitate a move toward the cashless socieity and spur the third tier growth for personal computers. The same phenomena that is happening in Finland is now spreading to Sweden and Norway, the other top two users of Mobile phones (Finland 45%, Sweden 40%, Norway 35%, and other Euro countries down from there). A cashless society may create a third tier wave of personal computer explosions in this country. What analysts have concentrated on was the movement from the second tier explosion to the third tier (Apple/IBM tier 1, Microsoft Windows tier 2, tier 3 Internet, or whatever you choose to call it). The explosive jump to the third tier in Finland was necessarily preceded by - the mobile phone. The mobile phone necessarily needs more bandwidth, and along with Finland increasing available bandwidth (and decreasing unecessary regulations and costs of it), the costs of internet connection dropped dramatically and the rise in demand for personal computers is occuring as a result. In the US, internet connection is relatively inexpensive but Bandwidth is not cheap nor readily available due to over regulation by the US Govt. Once Bandwidth regulations and availability were opened up in Finland, the mobile phone market exploded and has brought with it the cashless society and the personal computer (why has it gone in this order for them?). We are still predominantly a cash society and have quite a ways to catch up to Finland (in this regard). But Bandwidth deregulation and the internet is helping bring us up to speed; although some analysts in the US still view the personal computer as merely a word processor and game piece (isn't this a result of myopic views relative to current predominant US personal/business technology uses? - but won't this change here as it is changing in Finland?). In Finland the PC is quickly becoming tied to everyday life for bill paying and downloading faxes received on the mobile units to their computer or small printer units (of course, increased bandwidth will allow inexpensive sending of data over video phones and/or video computers - you can see who you're talking to; technology is here in the U.S. and in Finland, but, unlike Finland, cost effective available bandwidth is not). For Nokia and Finland next comes the video phone with 3G. Why won't it happen here this way?

To: cooksbay95 who wrote (129808)	5/29/1999 8:53:00 AM
From: arthur pritchard	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 176387

Cooksbay95, Of course I don't mind. We are here hopefully to help one another. Especially since the institutional selling that has been going on this past week with Dell has controlled the market in a very narrow range. We should all try and help one another to the best of our abilities to get whatever advantage that can be had. You haven't spent much time on the thread,but maybe you are like me and enjoy tuning in and learning. There are some very nice, intelligent and thought provoking people that hang out here. But no Jerks allowed, yes lucretius tauraus you Go Away. PC QUOTE with real time data. Approximately $300/MO GW PLANNER ( Friend of Arthur Pritchard, who is away for the Holiday and didn't take his Laptop on purpose.)