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Technology Stocks : George Gilder - Forbes ASAP
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To: George Gilder who wrote (765)10/27/1998 7:13:00 AM
From: Bill Fischofer  Read Replies (2) of 5853
 
DoCoMo, Flush with new cash, pursues future of mobile phone

Interesting article at interactive.wsj.com in today's Wall Street Journal about NTT Mobile Communications Networks planned use of wideband CDMA (W-CDMA) to build cellphones capable of transmitting live video. Planned launch of the first W-CDMA network is in Japan in March 2001.

Any idea how this relates to QCOM? It seems to me that with the Europeans tweaking their CDMA variants to skirt some of QCOM's patents the Japanese would be motivated to do the same. Interesting excerpt from the article:

W-CDMA still faces uncertain prospects in the U.S., though. Many operators have adopted CDMA, which sounds similar but is so far incompatible with W-CDMA. Worse, many of those American CDMA operators use frequency earmarked for W-CDMA and paid the government billions for the privilege. The last thing they want is to adopt a standard that requires that they buy more frequency, says Scott Erickson, vice president of Lucent Technologies' wireless networks group in Asia. These obstacles and lobbying of the U.S. Congress against W-CDMA by CDMA's inventor, Qualcomm, are likely to leave the U.S. out of W-CDMA's international embrace.

Is QCOM now more interested in lobbying and litigating than innovating?
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