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To: Peter J Hudson who wrote (15568)	9/28/1998 7:46:00 AM
From: Rajala	Read Replies (1) of 152472

Peter, >I predict that QCOM will be first to market with such an eloquent >3G solution that it won't matter what any standards setting body >decides. The market will set the standard, as it should be. It should be? Why? Only with one open, universal standard (be it W-CDMA or CDMS2000 or combined or whatever) there will be true operator competition. In my area there are 3 operators all GSM. So with my phone I can switch operators weekly if I want to, or I can even get a SIM chip from all of them and use the operator that offers best terms at any given time of the day. In effect you can change your operator in 15 seconds. So the price goes down, which pushes usage up, which pushes prices down etc. Everybody wins. Plus the economics of scale, plus universal roaming. I can't see the fragmented technologies in the US being of any help for the users. It is rather strange to read postings from our US friends getting all excited when their phone had worked in another city. - rajala

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