Irwin Jacobs
Irwin Jacobs
move strategy strongly sure wireless
It's part of our strategy to move much more strongly into what we think is this new-coming trend, which is the wireless Internet, ... What we want to do is make sure there is a whole set of capabilities available.
following holiday large quarter sale
The holiday quarter is always a very large quarter for the sale of phones, ... The following quarter is a little less.
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Global economic uncertainties have slowed the growth we were previously expecting, causing us to lower our expectations for CDMA handset sales to approximately 80 million units in 2001 versus the 90 million units on which we had previously planned.
factors outside wish
We wish we could go faster, but there are factors outside our control,
access areas belief central continued data focus fuel future growth improving industry internet investing strategy wireless year
This year we continued to focus on improving profitability while investing in areas of future growth. Central to our strategy is the belief that CDMA-based wireless data and Internet access applications will fuel industry growth for years to come,
believe critical data growing market products variety wide wireless worldwide
We believe that the availability of a wide variety of products and wireless data applications is critical for growing the worldwide market for CDMA,
assure believe combined current growing necessary position rapidly wireless
We believe that the current reduction, combined with other cost-cutting measures, is necessary to assure our competitive position in the rapidly growing wireless communications market.