Doug, Does a Qualcomm version of W-cdma exist yet? Well, no. But there are several standards for multimedia CDMA available. Which would you choose?
Qualcomm, Lucent, Motorola, Northern Telecom W-cdmaOne, with a massive installed base of working equipment, all derived from Qualcomm's brains trust. They just need to stick a couple aerials together with chicken wire and bubble gum to get sufficient bandwidth for people to blow their beer money in an afternoon surfing the Multimedia Web. Of course, Qualcomm will want 3% royalties.
Ericsson, Nokia and NTT etc. With all GSM, analog, TDMA and stuff from the 1980s. Ericsson until 12 months ago, via their gangsta rap artist Bill Frezza, claiming that cdmaOne couldn't and wouldn't work and even if it it did, it would be expensive, dodgy at loading and was basically a fraud conflicting with laws of physics, quantum mechanics and NIH analysis. But in the past year, they have suddenly realized they were working on it all along, in fact invented CDMA and now have a nearly ready to sell broadband CDMA multimedia system. Backwards compatible to everything. They will make it a generic standard!! No royalties. Yippeee!! Sounds great.
Winn's Marvelous MultiMedia Marvel [WMMMM-TM]. It will provide full 3D, quad sound, with direct neuronal stimulation by enhanced Bose-Einstein vibration. Neural output by synaptic monitoring direct to quarkian wormholes = zero delay in transmission. Not backward compatible but what the hell, everyone will abandon their junk and go for this. No royalties on this either. I've got a working lab model, similar to Ericsson's - doesn't actually work in the mobile environment and there are a few wires connected here and there. The picture quality is a bit dodgy too, but if Ericsson can get away with it......
Just in case mine isn't the most popular, I've invested in Qualcomm which damn it is now below my latest greedy little buy price! That isn't the normal course of events. Oh well, a dollar isn't much at $50. I reckon most prudent investors would realize which group is most likely to come up with the goods. Sure, all are vaporware in one sense, but a couple of them have more basis in reality than the other. Ericsson has no basis!
Raymond, of course they are all arguing and shouting over in Madrid for good reason, they want to get stuff for free, they don't like Yanks, they suffer NIH syndrome, they are government department socialist, bureaucrat types who love nothing better than a standard so nobody has to actually think when they get up in the morning. They are used to living the life of monopolists with government protection if not ownership. Unfortunately for them, the new world has come up with the new goods.
Has Clinton told Yeltsin to get off the vodka long enough to tell his dum thugs in Rostov-on-Don to let Richard Bliss go yet? I say give them 24 hours to come up with some real evidence that he was up to no good [other than failing to fill out a form at immigration] and release him or send a cruise missile with a Double Happy through Yeltsin's front door as a reminder of reality! Put a note on it in Russian so they know what's needed. They've been mucking about for weeks now.
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