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To: Alfred W. Post who wrote (75450)	7/6/2000 12:39:57 PM
From: Rajala	Read Replies (5) of 152472

W-CDMA is not a technology of Q. >Is the W-CDMA technology the one of Qualcom? and what >is special about it? Fred W-CDMA is an open 3-G standard, which is specified (mainly) by ETSI and to which any manufacturer is invited to produce goodies. The 3-G standard of Q is called CDMA2000 and is proprietary, i.e. Q stands to gain royalties on each adaptation. W-CDMA is designed especially the GSM in mind. As the GSM is the dominant – and BTW fastest growing – technology, W-CDMA is going to be the dominant 3-G technology in the world. The question remains how big a slice is left to CDMA2000. The signs are not encouraging, at least everywhere else but not on this thread. Even the most devoted CDMA1 countries are slipping into the W-CDMA camp, witness Korea and Brazil. There is even a clear albeit less than likely possibility that no commercial CDMA2000 systems will ever be built. So will CDMA2000 suffer the fate of the Betamax video? I think so. - rajala

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