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To: cfoe who wrote (355)	7/29/1999 12:18:00 AM
From: quidditch	Respond to of 13582

could someone please tell me what W-CDMA is or is supposed to be...In an effort to keep this thread's positive characteristics alive and kicking, I offer up the following, with apologies to the vets: As E's infringement suit against Q coalesced and was brewed (it had to, in the interests of E's credibility vis a vis its customers) and came closer to the moment of truth, and as E's own efforts and that of its minions in the Holy War grew more hysterical and desperate, E had to do something to counter Q's evolving and announced advances in terms of 3G CDMA, HDR characteristics, broadband-like data transmission, which as Gregg just pointed out were beyond the acknowledged technical capabilities of TDMA/GSM. Accordingly, E pronounced it had developed an evolutionary and proprietary 3G path of its own to high data rate transmission, which it dubbed W-CDMA, and promptly claimed all manner of proprietary patents that Q, nervy upstart that it was, was alleged to have copped. Hope that helps and is a reasonable distillation of years of stuff. Regards. Steven