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To: Apollo who wrote (1011)	7/17/2004 3:31:42 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) of 2955

Control of a Proprietary Open Architecture << .... what am I missing? >> The fact that the open architecture of the 3GSM UMTS WCDMA platform is not under the exclusive (proprietary open) control of Qualcomm, or any other company. The architecture of the 3GSM UMTS WCDMA platform evolved in committee (3GIG, ETSI, 3GPP) and like GSM (which continues to evolve in committee in parallel with 3GSM) is based on the contributions of many stakeholders, insuring that no company has gorilla control over the platform's architecture, or in this case even the architecture of the primary (UTRA DS) or secondary (UTRA TDD) access modes. "Architectures define the way in which various parts of a system hook into each other in order to make the whole thing work. ... Architectures can be controlled by a single company or a group. When they are under the exclusive control of a single company they are called proprietary. The opposite of a proprietary architecture is one that is controlled by a committee--a standards body or consortium." - GAM, The Gorilla Game, pages 52. 53 (RFM), pages 48, 49 (FM) - The differences in the continuously evolving competitive advantage that accrues to Qualcomm in the CDMA2000 domain of mobile wireless telephony where they have proprietary open control of the architecture and where they can proact in driving further development, is dramatically and visibly different than it is in the GSM and 3GSM UMTS domains where they have to react to continuously evolving committee based standards that govern the platforms architecture and its service containers. Best, - Eric -

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