Wireless News
10/24/01
Germany's Group 3G has rebranded itself as Quam in order to push itself onto the market while waiting for 3G technology to turn up.

Quam is owned by Spain's Telefonica Moviles and Finland's Sonera. The company holds a German 3G licence and its two parents are on the verge of launching a GPRS network in Germany in order to cash-in on voice services and establish a customer base.

Quam's GPRS service will serve as the interim technology while the company waits for 3G to take off.

NEWS 10/22/01
A future where you can remotely switch on your garden sprinkler, receive a call from your mobile telling you you're home has been broken into or where vending machines phone for a refill aren't too far off, with a group of Australian scientists developing Web-based infrastructure to pull off multiple stunts of this kind.




Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is developing a low-cost, Web-based infrastructure that combines sensor technology, the Internet and the mobile phone network to enable a variety of monitoring and control applications.

The team is currently developing a sprinkler system that can be switched on or off when a special number is dialled and sends an alert when watering is complete. They have also developed a vending machine that issues drinks when instructed to by a mobile phone.

Whilst there are other systems out there that do some of these things, they don't have the capability to cater for a range of business and home applications, according to Dr Ken Taylor from CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences.

We use a generic GSM infrastructure over the Internet on which we build multiple applications¦that use very simple, cheap microprocessors, Taylor told ZDNet Australia.

"At the moment it is possible to get systems that do similar things, but they tend to involve purpose designed devices that can only do that one thing and are very expensive," he said.

"The plan is to use a combination of existing Internet, mobile phone and SMS infrastructure to develop this technology for a range of applications for businesses and home use. This will not only keep costs down, it will make it easier for users to configure the system to their specific needs."

The system is being designed to both control and monitor devices and the applications the system could be used for include snack/drink vending machines that call the supplier when they are nearly empty, cashless vending machines where vending is controlled remotely and activated by a mobile phone call, photocopiers that call for service when they need fixing and do-it-yourself back-to-base building security.

"So, you can control things - such as turning your watering system on and off - using a mobile phone. And the system also makes it possible for devices to report back to you - your garden could call you when it was wet enough, or you could receive a message if your home was invaded," Taylor said.



Good Technology is counting on solid industry connections to pay off as it looks to take on Research In Motion and its BlackBerry device in the wireless e-mail arena.

The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based start-up has been shopping both server software and a pager-like device to large businesses that will enable companies to securely send and receive e-mail to remote workers, according to sources. The server software is likely to be available first, followed by a device. The server software could also be used with third-party wireless devices besides Good's pager.

Company representatives declined to comment.


NEWS 10/03/01 NTT DoCoMo 'expects to launch 3G in Europe next year'

NTT DoCoMo says it expects to launch a European version of its pioneering 3G mobile phone service by the end of next year.

President Keiji Tachikawa says the services will be offered via its partner, Hutchinson 3G UK Holdings.

Mr Tachikawa also predicts that equivalent high-speed wireless services will not be available in the US until 2003.

"We plan to offer 3G initially in Europe in the second half of next year," Mr Tachikawa said in a speech to foreign journalists in Tokyo, quoted by 3GNewsroom.com.

He added: "Hutchison 3G will be our top batter for services in Europe."

NTT DoCoMo, which delivered the world's first commercial 3G network in Tokyo on Monday, has a 20% stake in Hutchinson 3G.

Its US partner is AT&T Wireless


N E W S 07/06/01

Nokia is going to lay off 1.000 employees

Finally even Nokia has to reduce their costs by letting employees go. It is Nokia Networks who is going to save money. One of their measures is to let 1.000 employees around the world leave the company.

Nokia says that this package of measures is going to improve the profitability and make Nokia Networks more competitive. These changes should be implemented by the end of this year. Nokia Networks has today 23.000 employees globally.



N e w s 06/08/01

LUCENT PLANS TO LET FURTHER 5000 LEAVE THE COMPANY

Lucent Technologies that now fast takes action to reduce costs after the discontinued merger with Alcatel plans to let further 5 000 employees leave the company, writes Financial Times.

The newspaper refers to a close source to Lucent who talks about a plan for severance payment and an early retirement for the middle management in the US. A plan that would decrease their staff with 5 000 employees in addition to the already announced 10 000.

The company's CEO and chairman of the board, Henry Schacht, comment in the same time the discontinued discussions with the French company Alcatel. According to Schacht, Alcatel rather would like to take over Lucent than a merger solution. He also says that it is more unlikely that the discussion will continue but adds that he's too old to say never.



06/01/01


NOKIA IS GETTING BIGGER

Nokia settled even more securely their position as the biggest cellular phone manufactor under this years the first quarter. Nokia had 35,3 percent of the world market for cellular phones. Ericsson was passed by Siemens who now are ranked number three.

The Finnish Nokia is on their way to reach their goal of a 40 percent share on the world market. Under the year 2000, Nokia's share was 30,6 percent.

The American company Motorola was as usual second with their share of 13,2 percent of the world market under the first quarter. This is a decline from 14,6 percent under the year 2000.

The German company Siemens increased their market share from 6,5 percent under the year 2000 to 6,9 percent under the first quarter. With that, Ericsson was passed who had a market share of 6,8 percent.

The Korean company Samsung takes the fifth place with a market share of 6,3 percent.

Among the Japanese manufactures, Panasonic dropped from a fifth place to a sixth place while NEC and Mitsubishi took, respectively, the seventh place and the eight place.

According to Gartner, 97 million cellular phones was sold in the world under the first quarter which is in the line with the prognosis of 500 million sold cellular phones under this year.


05/31/01
Axis sells Bluetooth(TM) network system to Japanese telecom operator

Axis Communications has signed a deal with Japan's largest telecom operator, NTT, valued at approximately USD 100,000 (SEK 1 million) to deliver Bluetooth Access Points for a Japanese shopping arcade in Osaka. The system is used in a trial for location-based services including navigation. As the order is part of a pilot project it has great growth potential. NTT has ambitions to implement similar mobile networks based on Bluetooth wireless technology and Axis Access Points in other locations in Japan.

" This Osaka trial is the world's first real life navigation system based on Bluetooth wireless technology apart from trade fair demos. Axis has shown that they are at the cutting edge of Bluetooth wireless technology and has developed a fully functional network solution. That is why we chose to work with Axis on this prestigious project,' says Mr. Hirokazu Ogawa, Manager, ITS Promotion Office, Business Communications HQ at NTT West. "The Osaka trial has been a success and clearly shows the direction for the technology as a promising enabler for cost efficient wireless services and applications in local environments.'

Local mobile networks connect access points for unlicensed radio technologies such as Bluetooth and W-LAN and complement other wireless technologies e.g. GPRS or 3G by offering voice and high speed data to handheld devices such as PDAs or mobile phones.

This is the second substantial order from Japan for the Access Point AXIS 9010. In January Axis announced a sales agreement with Canon Sales Company in Japan that also included equipment for mobile printing based on Bluetooth wireless technology.



05/27/0127 May 2001
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BT Cellnet's customers are turning their backs on using their mobile phones to access the internet, according to figures obtained by The Independent on Sunday.

The revelation, ahead of the planned flotation of Cellnet's parent BT Wireless later this year, raises huge questions about the embattled telecoms giant paid for its third-generation mobile licence. BT's new chairman, Sir Christopher Bland, has already stated that, with hindsight, BT should not have bid for the licence.

Worries about third-generation mobiles are likely to overshadow the demerger of BT Wireless later this year.

Analysts had hoped that internet access would drive growth at the mobile phone quartet which dominate the UK. Vodafone, Orange, One2One and BT Cellnet.

BT's internal figures reveal that Genie, the WAP mobile service operated by BT Wireless, has been hit by a massive slump in WAP usage in the first quarter of this year.

Total visits to Genie's WAP internet site fell by over 60 per cent from 115 million in January to 40.5 million in April.

Figures also reveal that the number of minutes BT's mobile users spent surfing the web dropped from 36 million in January to 12 million in April.

Analysts said that the figures suggest the use of BT's WAP service has been largely supported by a three-month trial offered over Christmas and consumers have been reluctant to continue to use the services beyond this time.

WAP has failed to live up to consumer expectations, being slow and expensive to use.

Of the four main networks, BT Cellnet is seen as the chief proponent of WAP and mobile internet services. Earlier this year, it launched a big marketing push for Genie. The company has also used its "Surf the BT Cellnet" tagline as a key part of its advertising in a bid to position itself as a cutting-edge operator.

Critics say that BT launched WAP too soon and initially the service was slow to access, difficult to use, and offered limited information.

"In some respects BT Cellnet has been ahead of the other operators in terms of pushing WAP," said Louisa Greenacre, a telecoms analyst at ING Barings. "[Genie and BT Cellnet] were very active in terms of advertising and giving away free WAP phones but they've come in for a lot of criticism from people saying they over-hyped it. When people got the phones, they saw it wasn't like surfing the internet and were inevitably disappointed." A spokeswoman for Genie said: "We can't comment on unattributed information of this kind. Genie officially publishes its growth figures on a quarterly basis. The next scheduled date is June, quiet period permitting."

One2One, Britain's smallest mobile operator, had 140,000 active WAP users in January this year, according to its latest figures, with Orange registering 188,000 active WAP users in April.

Vodafone does not release figures for the number of active WAP users.

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N E W S 04/09/01

ALCATEL AND PHILIPS WANT TO SELL OUT THE CELLULAR PHONES

Two European cellular phone manufactures - French Alcatel and Dutch Philips are prepared to sell out their cellular phone manufacturing.

- The cellular phones are not sacred to us says Alcatels chairman of the board Serge Tchuruk.

Alcatel manufacture significant smaller numbers of cellular phones than their competitors Ericsson and Nokia and Serge Tchuruk, said yesterday on a press conference that Alcatel not necessarily need to have their own cellular phone manufacturing.

- Cellular phone manufacturing is a business that demands large production and long production runs. We only manufacture 20 million cellular phones and therefore we doesn't consider us 100 percent committed to cellular phones, said Serge Tchuruk according to Financial Times.

Gerard Kleisterlee, chairman of the board for Dutch Phillips said the same thing last week. Philips is seeking a partner to their cellular phone division but they can also consider to sell it out completely.



N E W S 03/19/01

PROFIT WARNING FROM SIEMENS

The German company Siemens surprises the US market. Less than 24 hours after they had been listed at the New York stock exchange they announces a profit warning.

It is the chip production that cause problem for Siemens as well as for many other companies.

The chip manufacture, Infineon Technologies, that is owned to 71 percent by Siemens, has presented a depressing prognosis for the future and that is the reason why Siemens now chooses to announce a profit warning.

Siemens still expects a double figure increase when it comes to their own order intake and sales, according to Wall Street Journal. But Infineons crisis means that the hole group is going to be loaded. Infineon represents approximately 26 percent of Siemens net income.

Well, it's not surprising that a chip manufacture announce a profit warning these days. Under the fourth quarter last year, approximately 40 chip manufactures did nothing else but announced profit warnings.

The thing that surprises analysts in New York is the timing. Siemens announce a profit warning less than 24 hours after they had been listed on the New York stock exchange, despite that they reasonably must have known about the chip manufactures problem for a long while.



02/25/01


SMS BECOMES MMS

The SMS's time will soon be over. It's Ericsson that is behind the new standard for text messages, MMS, which will be topical for the future GPRS-cell phones.

Ericsson has developed the SMS-standard (Short Message Service) further to a new standard which will go by the name of MMS (Multimedia Message Service).

MMS works the same as SMS does, the message is pushed out to the receiver. But with a MMS you will also be able to send pictures and even a movie clip if you want.

In the future we will also see cell phones with built-in cameras so you can take a picture and send it directly with a MMS to a receiver.

MMS will not have a limitation on signs as the SMS has today. Instead the limitation will be on the file size. The limitation will be between 30 and 100 kilo bytes.

Ericsson plans to have cell phones that support MMS out on the market by the end of this year. The carriers will also support MMS at this time.
3G-billions are melting

Thursday's profit warning from the Canadian company Nortel is yet another sign that the high indebted global telecom industry is pulling the emergency brake. With that, a sobering up occurs in a business that thought they could spend thousands of billions on 3G and mobile Internet.

Lower investments is what takes for those telecom companies that are building 3G-nets if they want to be sure that the investments will pay back in the end.

In total the European telecom companies have announced investments of billion in 3G net until year 2007. This amount was recently calculated by the investment bank, Dresdner Kleinworth-Wasserstein. It includes everything from license costs, building and marketing.

The investment bank it self draws the simple conclusion that this will never happens because customers are missing that could generate income to the carriers and also because that the sub suppliers don't have the financial mussels to provide help with supplier credits. This is what the investments on the stock market have discovered with fall in price for telecom stocks, both carries and suppliers as a result.

Lower selling prognosis

For Ericsson, Nokia,and Nortel it means that expectations on forthcoming selling growth is adjusted down. Nortel expects that the market for telecommunication equipment is going to growth with 10 percent under 2001, far away from the 30-percentige growth that CEO John Roth announced earlier.

The carriers are nervous. They want to make sure that every dollar they spend will make profit this year. I can't see that this strategy will change, said John Roth at the phone conference on Thursday.

It isn't strange that the stock prices fell on Friday after Nortel's profit warning announcement. Nortel fell just over 20 percent in the after trade in the USA.


NOKIA REDUCE THE GROWTH PROGNOSIS

Nokia's result and sales under year 2000 was a little bit better than
expected, but yet the stock fell when the report was presented. The cause
is that Nokia reduce the growth and profit prognosis for this year first
quarter.

Nokia has earlier said that the growth for this first half year will be
between 25-35 percent. In the accounts, this prognosis was adjusted to
25-30 percent for the first quarter. It's a marginal change but it makes
the profit per stock for the first quarter this year is predicted to be at
the same level as the profit per stock was last year for the first quarter.

This reflects a weaker market growth than expected under the first quarter
but also the company's aggressive strategy to win market shares,
especially within the cellular phone area.

Nokia also reduce the prognosis for the cellular phone market this year,
from 550 million cell phones to the interval 500 to 550 millions.

Nokia's chairman of the board Jorma Ollila said this about Nokia's numbers for year 2000 "nothing else but fantastic".

Nokia's turnover for last year was 30,4 billion euro, towards expected 30
according to SME. The result before taxes was 5,9 billion euro, towards
expected 5,8 billion. The turnover rose 54 percent compare to the year
1999, and the profit with 52 percent.




Date: Friday, January 26 2001

Ericsson News

* Strategic alliance with Flextronics will provide economies of scale,
higher capital efficiency and better volume flexibility

* Fundamentally new setup in times of changed market dynamics

* Additional agreement with Taiwanese electronic manufacturer GVC to
complement Arima cooperation

Ericsson has decided to team up with Flextronics and transfer its complete
supply chain for mobile phones. Ericsson has signed a Memorandum of
Understanding with Flextronics which establishes a strategic alliance,
leading to a rapid improvement of economies of scale, a much smaller
capital exposure and reduced risk.

Effective April 1 and subject to final agreements, Flextronics will take
over all related Ericsson facilities in Brazil, Malaysia, Sweden
(Linking and Pilngen). UK (Carlton and Scunthorpe) and parts of the US
plant in Lynchburg/Virginia. Our Joint Ventures in China will not be
affected.

4 200 employees will join Flextronics. In Linking and Lund there is a
redundancy of 600 employees, who will be offered support in developing new
careers outside Ericsson. Ericsson has made restructuring provisions that
will be reflected in the financial accounts 2000.
Ericsson will focus on R&D, development, design and sales and marketing.

R&D will be concentrated in Lund and Kista (Sweden), Raleigh (US) and
Basingstoke (UK). In Basingstoke we have a redundancy of less than 100
employees. By the end of this year, the Consumer Products Division will
employ approximately 7,000 employees compared to 16,800 end of last year.
"In light of a significant change in the world market for mobile phones
we have decided to fundamentally change the setup of our business," said
Jan Wareby, Executive Vice President, Ericsson Consumer Products Division.
"The alliance with Flextronics will enable us to achieve economies of
scale and volume flexibility."
"We are committed to remain a top player in mobile phones," said Jan
Wareby. "With this new set-up, we respond to a much tougher business
environment, and we create a sound basis for long-term profitability."
Ericsson expects the world mobile phone market to reach a volume of around
500 to 540 million units this year after 405 to 415 million units in 2000.

Taiwanese manufacturer GVC selected to complement Arima agreement
In addition to the Flextronics agreement, Ericsson signed an agreement
with the Taiwanese electronic manufacturer GVC, complementing the
partnership with Arima. This cooperation includes outsourcing of product
development and production (ODM).
Ericsson is the leading communications supplier, combining innovation in
mobility and Internet in creating the new era of mobile Internet. Ericsson
provides total solutions covering everything from systems and applications
to mobile phones and other communications tools. With more than 100,000
employees in 140 countries, Ericsson simplifies communications for
customers all over the world.


N e w s
UNITED AIRLINES PASSENGERS will soon be able to check their e-mail and surf the Internet wirelessly from virtually anywhere in an airport terminal, the world's largest airline said on Tuesday.

The unit of UAL Corp. said it was partnering with Aerzone, a subsidiary of San Francisco-based SoftNet Systems Inc., to offer high-speed wireless technology to Red Carpet Club airport lounges, gate rooms, terminals, first class lounges and Frequent Flyer Centers at up to 50 top airports around the world.
The new wireless service will eliminate the need for a physical connection through a conventional telephone line, which limits Internet access to airport lounges or modem-equipped pay telephones.
United said installation will be subject to approval by the individual airports.
Aerzone operates wireless broadband local area networks and business centers in locations frequented by business professionals, such as airports, convention centers and hotels.



NO MORE PREDICTIONS FROM MOTOROLA

Motorola will stop giving year forecasts because the company can't
estimate how the business cycle in the USA and the rest of the world will
affect the demand. The company was bombarded with questions under
yesterdays phone conference regarding the unprofitability for cell phones.

The company gives from now on only an indication about sales and
profitability from quarter to quarter.

We are readjusting to a slower growth in the USA and possibly even on
other markets in the world. We can't therefore give any guidelines for the
future that reach one year in the future, said Motorola's CEO Bob
Growney.

The company predict a normal price development with falling prices on
simple cell phones and more steady prices for prestige cell phones with a
lot of content and many functions.

According to Dow Jones, Motorola predicts that the total market was 410
millions sold cell phones last year. It's close to Nokia's prediction of
405 millions sold cell phones, which led to that the shares for cell phone
manufactures fell substantial the other day because the market had
expected a total market of 420 millions sold cell phones last year.

Like Ericsson, Motorola cuts in costs to get the profitability and market
share on cell phones back on track again. Among other things 40 percent of
all cell phone manufacturing will be rearranged to sub suppliers within
the next couple of years.

TOO BAD DESIGN

The cell phone problems depends among other things on that Motorola
committed too much on WAP cell phones and too less on simple, designed and
cheap cell phones.
Like Ericsson, Motorola employs new designers and market researchers to
get better knowledge about what the market wants to buy. To that, the
company will develop a smaller number of platforms because they want to
have the capacity to rearrange much faster.


BELL MOBILITY TO SPEND MILLION ON SYSTEMS UPGRADES!

WebPosted Thu Jan 11 19:25:09 2001

TORONTO - Bell Mobility is spending million to expand its digital network and develop multimedia Internet services through mobile phones, it announced Thursday. In partnership with Nortel Networks, the two companies will begin construction of the expanded network this month.

"Having pioneered the use of digital PCS technology as a tool for accessing content-rich data, we want to extend its benefits to more Canadians, from more locations, through more devices that operate seamlessly on our CDMA network," said Pierre Blouin, president and CEO of Bell Mobility in a release.

The new service will give more people living outside major urban centres in Ontario and Quebec access to the network.

Bell Mobility, which is part of the BCE group of companies, is also conducting field trials on Internet-related functions that could be delivered to digital PCS phones. Currently, news, business, entertainment and sports stories from CBC.ca are sent to Bell Mobility's PCS subscribers in urban areas.

On Tuesday, BCE received the Competition Bureau's okay to acquire the media assets of Thomson Corp., including The Globe and Mail, along with a number of related Internet properties. The new entity will be known as Bell Globemedia.




NOKIA SALES DISAPPOINTMENT

HELSINKI, Jan. 9 Shares in the world's largest mobile phone maker Nokia
slumped Tuesday after it released lower-than-expected mobile phone sales
data for 2000.


NOKIA'S SHARES, which was trading at around 46 euros before the statement,
was down 12 percent at 39.50 euros in midday European trading and was
underperforming other Eurotech peers.

Nokia said in a statement, released on the eve of rival Motorola's
fourth-quarter results, that it sold over 128 million cellphones in 2000, up
64 percent year-on-year and exceeding overall market growth.
I was expecting closer to 140 million units, said Michael Schroder,
analyst at Opstock in Helsinki. I think that this may be a way for the
company to deflate expectations ahead of their (January 30) full-year
result.
Nokia said according to preliminary estimates, global mobile phone
market volume in the year 2000 was approximately 405 million units, a 45
percent increase from the previous year.
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Nokia has earlier said that over 400 million phones would be sold
globally by year-end, giving it a global market share of some 32 percent.
Research group Gartner Dataquest last week released figures showing
Nokia had taken 30.6 percent market share in the third quarter of 2000
compared with number two Motorola's 13.3 percent.
Nokia said the global mobile phone subscriber base had risen to over
700 million users by end-2000, in line with its previous forecasts.


FIDO ACQUIRES A RECORD NUMBER OF SUBSCRIBERS IN THE FOURTH QUARTER --

Company expands its customer base by 58% in 2000
Montreal, January 10, 2001 AndreTremblay, President and Chief Executive Officer of Microcell Telecommunications Inc. (TSE: MTI.B; Nasdaq: MICT), today announced that the Company acquired a record 134,654 customers in the fourth quarter of 2000, bringing the total number of new customers acquired during the year to 338,040. This strong operating performance represents year-over-year improvements of 8% and 12%, respectively, in quarterly and annual new net activations compared with the previous records set in the fourth quarter and for full-year 1999. On a gross-activations basis, the Company added 194,124 and 537,443 wireless subscribers for the three- and twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2000, up 20% and 30%, respectively, from the same periods in 1999.

Microcell substantially exceeded its new net acquisition target for 2000, stated Mr. Tremblay. Given this result, Microcell should report the highest customer growth rate in the Canadian wireless industry for 2000, further establishing its position as one of the fastest-growing telecom companies in Canada.

Microcell Solutions which retails Personal Communications Services (PCS) under the Fido brand name expanded its total PCS customer base by 58% in 2000 to reach 922,527 as at December 31, 2000, compared with 584,487 at the end of 1999.

Fido postpaid service accounted for 38,169 of Microcell Solutions total customers acquired in the fourth quarter, while Fidomatic prepaid service accounted for 96,485 additions. The higher proportion of prepaid activations in the fourth-quarter customer mix highlights the successful product positioning of Fidomatic as the ideal commitment-free gift for the holiday season and lends further support to the view that Canadian consumers embrace the convenient, simple and flexible nature inherent in a prepaid wireless service,said Alain Rhaume, Microcell's Executive Vice-President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer.

Fido postpaid subscribers represented 51% of the Company's total retail customer base as at December 31, 2000.

In the fourth quarter, over 12,000 prepaid customers migrated to a postpaid plan, bringing the total level of such migrations for the year 2000 to 52,266, or 24 % of new prepaid customers acquired in the year. Operationally, this not only has a positive effect on our ability to manage customer retention more effectively, but also adds substantially to average revenues per user at virtually no incremental cost,noted Mr. Rhaume. The tremendous success we have had in switching prepaid customers over to fixed-price monthly postpaid plans bodes well for future migrations, particularly with the introduction of higher-speed data and Internet-based services just around the corner.

Microcell Solutions also reported blended postpaid and prepaid average monthly churn rates, after the guarantee period, of 2.3% and 2.2% for the fourth quarter and full-year 2000, compared with 2.3% and 2.1% for the same periods in 1999.

Microcell continues to deliver strong results consistently, quarter after quarter, earning its reputation as a high-quality, service-driven and innovative organization, concluded Mr. Tremblay. We are optimistic that, as we close in on our one millionth customer, 2001 should prove to be a year of continued subscriber growth filled with new and exciting business opportunities.



Microcell Solutions' Net Additions



Quarterly Cumulative

1998
Q1 31,500 97,167
Q2 52,679 149,846
Q3 30,992 180,838
Q4 101,336 282,174

1999
Q1 62,169 344,343
Q2 60,234 404,577
Q3 54,815 459,392
Q4 125,095 584,487

2000
Q1 69,822 654,309
Q2 68,430 722,739
Q3 65,134 787,873
Q4 134,654 922,527



About Microcell
Microcell Telecommunications Inc. is a leading Canadian provider of Personal Communications Services (PCS). Microcell has five operating subsidiaries: Microcell Connexions Inc., which operates the Company's PCS network on a wholesale basis; Microcell Solutions Inc., which markets PCS under the Fido brand name, Microcell Labs Inc., which carries out research and development in PCS applications; Microcell Capital II Inc., a venture company operating in the PCS sector; and Microcell i5 Inc., which develops wireless Internet services.

Microcell Telecommunications has been a public company since October 15, 1997, and is a member of the TSE 300, TSE 200 and S&P/TSE Canadian Mid Cap indices. Microcell's head office is located in Montreal. The Company employs more than 2,000 people across Canada. For more information, please visit www.microcell.ca and www.fido.ca.

The results disclosed in this release are subject to possible adjustment per Microcell's normal end-of-quarter review and annual audit process. The Company's main operating and financial results for the fourth quarter of 2000 will be released on February 13, 2001.

The statements made in this release concerning Microcell's future prospects are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, which may prevent expected future results from being achieved.

Fido and Fidomatic are trademarks of Microcell Solutions Inc.