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To: Mika Kukkanen who wrote (98509)4/30/2001 6:19:31 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (2) of 152472
 
<If cdma2000 is as good as people posting here hype it to be, why hasn't any European operator opted for it? >

Dear Mika,

1.....Because they don't want to be left out of a 'network effect'. Which isn't going to happen thanks to RadioOne and multimode handsets making any mode an available mode.

2.....Because Nokia is giving them 150% loans whereas cdma2000 vendors aren't doing that. Those loans will evaporate as Nokia advises them that there are just a few more glitches to resolve, but they'll advance the money any day now.

3.....Because they are hoping to bluster and confuse and bully and wear QUALCOMM down so they'll cut royalties. Which is funny because the service providers will cave in first. They are sitting on some VERY, VERY expensive spectrum which is lying dormant, very expensively, while Q! can bide their time.

4.....Because they were led up the garden path by the GSM Guild. There's one born every minute and greed easily blinds people.

5.....Because they are ignorant. They probably don't understand what concatenated, convoluted Reed Solomon coding in an unsynchronized system will do to customer satisfaction. They didn't even get pricing on the spectrum right, which is the most basic part of what they should understand [being the hotshot marketers]. Ignorance is NOT bliss. It is very, very expensive, if not always fatal.

6.....There are probably other reasons too.

All just MHO,
Mqurice
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