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To: masa who wrote (135050)8/2/2004 8:34:48 PM
From: Clarksterh  Read Replies (1) of 152472
 
<<OFDM. It would make their CDMA IPR portfolio just trash >>

Hardly. For instance, OFDM as Flarion uses it almost certainly infringes QCOM patents (and so will get an injunction if it goes commercial before expiration). But I'll concede that were it to get momentum (i.e. enough dollars to get the economies of scale of CDMA or GSM or ...) that it might provide competition which probably would lower the price. But that looks unlikely. You'll have to provide some data for me to get worried:

1) Mbps/MHz of spectrum in a fully loaded system.

2) Cost per MHz for infrastructure.

...

BTW - I was at one point a professional in some portions of cell phone technology and I can tell you that many of the other professionals (like the writer of my first book on CDMA) make mistakes. Certainly I made them. Hence my asking for facts.

Clark
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