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To: Ruffian who wrote (70)	8/1/2000 12:19:09 AM
From: w molloy	Read Replies (1) of 172

A rebuttal to your 'friend' One of my more serious charges is the poor quality API Your friend posts this Quite on the contrary. Look for the APIs and software description at: qualcomm.com Well - I checked out the link. There is nothing here that looks like a chipset API. These documents run to hundreds of pages. Now I'm very familiar with Voice Recognition, so I checked out this... qualcomm.com and all the subsequent links off this page. Again - nothing which passes muster as an API. Everything on these pages are actually sales brochures. The fact that your friend thinks they are indicative of API's underlines my point. On Type Approval... Your friend comments then good to acquire access to technolgies that have already gone through the process? You would think so, but thats not how Type Approval works in Europe. They typically look at the whole system as a new entity. You can bet that even if SpinCo offered a system that had been completely type approved in component form via other manufacturers, the Standards Authority would require a complete recertification. e.g. Both LU and Comquest used the Optimay software stack in their products. Both companies have to go through seperate type approval, even if the stack itself has been approved in other systems. On Field Trial Yeah. Qualcomm/Spinco has done similar things with IS-95A, IS-95B, now 1x and 1xEV. Your friend missed the point that QCOM control these specifications. QCOM also had a strong say in the network architecture that the field trials occured in. It will be very different in Europe during 3G roll out, when SpinCo will be working in a network that is potentially unknown and with a specification it doesn't ultimately control.

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