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To: rf_hombre who wrote (4925)	11/24/2000 5:33:01 PM
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There are a number of CDMA tricks that are manufacturer dependent and not part of the IS-95B/C standard and yet they are "essential". ... This process too is manufacturer dependent...and pretty fundamental. Do these statements mean that only Qualcomm handset ASIC's will work perfectly with Qualcomm-based ground station equipment? Do they mean that a handset using, say, a NoName CDMA ASIC might actually be stuck at less than optimal performance due to the lack of these particular parameter (and algorithmic?) setttings? If this is true then the other manufacturers, knowing the nasty realities of this situation, would be very constrained by the airtight control Qualcomm has over exact implementation issues ("My way or the highway."). Under this scenario it seems like it would be impossible, on technical grounds, for someone to successfully evade Q's CDMA patents and standards because Q's full cooperation would be required to obtain the necessary performance characteristics. Oddly enough, the critics may have been right - CDMA doesn't work (for anyone other than Q that is... ). --FL

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