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To: Raymond who wrote (23772)	3/23/1999 9:37:00 AM
From: Clarksterh	Read Replies (1) of 152472

Ericsson historical comments on CDMA: Recently I was doing some research at a library, and incidentally did about 2 hours looking for old comments about CDMA mobile systems and Qualcomm. I checked most major publications (from NY Times to WSJ to La Times to multiple smaller papers and periodicals). I was expecting to find some comments by Ericsson, but surprisingly didn't find any except one reasonably benign one. In an article in 12/5/94 Telephony they justified their decision not to support CDMA - <<CDMA is in its validation stage and has technical drawbacks that need correcting, making TDMA the more appealing technology platform for cellular carriers that want to build PCS networks that incorporate their digital AMPS networks, said Dalenstam.>> [Jan-Anders Dalenstam was executive VP of radio systems at Ericsson USA.] In the same article there is reference to a white paper that Ericsson planned to release to explain in more detail its decision to focus on GSM and TDMA while ignoring CDMA, but I checked the Ericsson site and they either never actually released such a paper, or they have subsequently removed it from their site. However, I did find some other interesting articles: 1) I found a quote from George Schmitt, president of Omnipoint Communications, who said CDMA would get only 4x analog at best. Bet he's embarassed (or would be if such people got embarassed). Financial Post - Toronto 9/28/96 2) Lusignan (the infamous Stanford professor) said that CDMA didn't have the same protection from fading that other technologies have. LA Times 5/20/96. This is a completely absurd statement since there were many possible rocks on which CDMA might have foundered, but this was not one of them. 3) Although people often talk as if Qualcomm claimed 30 or 40 times capacity for CDMA, that is not the case at least as early as Nov 4, 1993. In an article in the San Diego Daily Transcript Qualcomm only claimed 10 to 20 times analog capacity. All just FYI. Clark

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