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To: Gregg Powers who wrote (15788)9/30/1998 12:14:00 PM
From: tero kuittinen  Read Replies (3) of 152472
 
I'm going to make an exception and refrain from ad hominem attacks just this once - it makes me feel morally superior. Can I point out that Nokia has been doing research on W-CDMA handsets for nearly ten years now? I would expect that they know how to build these things. Current CDMA phone manufacturers do not have the basic digital handset expertise and know-how Nokia has - just compare the Motorola and Sony GSM phones to Nokia's.

Like I've said, the quality of phones reflects the money spent in R&D. There is now massive investment in W-CDMA gadgets both in Europe and Japan. And W-CDMA phone manufacturers Nokia and Ericsson have a *proven* track record of being so good at digital phones that they are currently world's number one and number two companies in this field.

The fact that W-CDMA is the optimal *third* generation solution tells us nothing about what is the optimal *second* generation solution (GSM versus IS-95). In any case, even if IS-95 had been the optimal second generation standard, they would have to have launched it in 1993 to provide a real alternative to GSM. It's too late to catch up all those years and all those billions spent in GSM R&D.

All my best,
Tero
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