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To: Mika Kukkanen who wrote (2768)2/11/1999 3:44:00 PM
From: Raymond  Read Replies (4) of 5390
 
It's a lot of discussions here on SI and on Yahoo about who supports convergence and who's not.Vodaphone-Airtouch is for example mentioned as supporters of convergence.All companies wants convergence.All operators and manufacturers want's the radioparameters to be so it's easy to make multimodephones.But it doesn't meant that they supports QCOM's position.QCOM interest is to get as much licensing money as possible.That's the reason why QCOM says that they will not license out their IPR:s to WCDMA.One of the big differences is how you synchronize the basestations.In IS-95 GPS is used and all basestations will get the same clock.That is a disadvantage where GPS is not avalible..NTT Docomo is one of the main inventors of WCDMA.In Japan they have major parts of the mobile traffic inside in buildings and railwaystations.They need to synchronize without GPS.
So then they decided to go for asynchronous basestations.You use systemframenumbers and timingcells between the basestationcontrollers and the basestations to synchronize.This is a technical advancement but it will not give QCOM any money so they are very much against it.I think this is one of the big problems with QCOM:s position.They don't want any changes in their standard if it means that they will lose IPR-money.That position will only stall technical development.
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