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To: engineer who wrote (686)	8/9/1999 12:51:00 AM
From: Valueman	Respond to of 13582

Engineer: How difficult/costly/problematic is it for carriers to offer data on the hardware side? How about the step from basic 14.4 data to IS-95B? Thanks

To: engineer who wrote (686)	8/9/1999 1:04:00 AM
From: limtex	Respond to of 13582

engineer - thanks. Now I'm beginning to understand what we can expect rfom the PdQ and the Thin. Point is though that isn't the big thing to be able to get a PCMCIA CDMA wireless modem or as you have described a working link via a Thin or PdQ. What I am trying to get to is isn't the really big market out there ...and now.... to be able to plug in your phone or wireless modem and start surfing the web whereever you are on the road without all the aggravation of finding a phone and a jack etc? Surely this is the big market out there just waiting, I know I am and isn't CDMA the most efficient way of doing it? Well if that's all true does anyone on the thread know who it is? Best regards, L

To: engineer who wrote (686)	8/9/1999 1:07:00 AM
From: limtex	Respond to of 13582

engineer - Future versions of both pdQ and thinphone can do 86k data rates if they are upgraded to the MSM3000 ASIC and the carrier supports IS-95B. If they were upgraded with HDR hardware, then they can each do 1-2Mbps Max rate. <I/> Are there plans for this to happen and if so when? Are there any articles worth reading? Best regards, L

To: engineer who wrote (686)	8/9/1999 1:12:00 AM
From: Boplicity	Respond to of 13582

Engineer, I got a question for you. In your last post you are talking about upgrades to the phones. How much big deal will it be to upgrade the base stations to accommodate the features you are talking about. I'm looking for cost and time, and who is further along in updating their base stations. Also, is there time line for all this to happen? Thanks, greg

To: engineer who wrote (686)	8/9/1999 10:49:00 AM
From: Ramsey Su	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 13582

qualcomm.com Comments? Ramsey

To: engineer who wrote (686)	8/9/1999 11:27:00 AM
From: gdichaz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

engineer: A specific question. Does the card Ramsey Su just provided a link for work with CDMA PCS, Cellular and analog in the US? Not clear if both PCS and Cellular CDMA are tied into it. Chaz

To: engineer who wrote (686)	8/10/1999 11:29:00 AM
From: RoseCampion	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

NTT DoCoMo getting crushed by CDMA and reduced to 'targeting housewives'...from Bloomberg: (note boldface paragraphs): NTT DoCoMo Plans Marketing Change to Boost Subscribers Tokyo, Aug. 10 (Bloomberg) -- NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc., Japan's dominant cellular phone operator, will revamp its marketing strategy following signs smaller competitors may be picking up a growing share of new subscribers. NTT DoCoMo, as the company is better known, plans to target specific types of users with each of its various mobile phone systems, Yoshinori Uda, senior executive vice president, told Bloomberg News. ``We have launched various services without really thinking about how we are going to market them,' Uda said. ``That's why our competitors were successful.' NTT DoCoMo signed up 48.4 percent of Japan's new mobile phone subscribers in the three months through June 30, down from almost 60 percent in the 12 months through last March. The figure bounced back to 57 percent in July, after the company dropped the price of handsets for its i-mode data phone service. The earlier decline came after IDO Corp., Japan's fourth- largest cellular phone operator, launched a new service based on cdmaOne technology. IDO, the cellular phone unit of Toyota Motor Corp., is appealing to NTT DoCoMo's customers, especially business people, who are unhappy with the sound quality of NTT DoCoMo's service. NTT DoCoMo, which has 57 percent of Japan's 44.8 million cellular phone users, is running out of frequencies. That forces it to cut in half bandwidth for individual users when airwaves are overloaded, degrading sound quality. Other operators, meanwhile, are focusing on smaller market segments. Japan Telecom Co., the nation's fourth-largest telecommunications carrier, is targeting Japan's affluent teenagers in the major metropolitan areas of Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya with its J-Phone companies. To counter rivals' moves, NTT DoCoMo will target business users with its Doccimo dual-system mobile phone. Doccimo allows users to switch between two mobile phone technologies -- cellular and personal handy-phone system (PHS) -- to take advantage of the strengths of each. Doccimo phones use cellular technology to cover a wider geographic area, and PHS in subway stations. PHS phones also have a larger data transmission capacity, suitable for connecting personal computers to the Internet. With its less expensive PHS service alone, NTT DoCoMo will target housewives, who use mobile phones less often, Uda said. NTT DoCoMo will eventually launch new advertisements for its i-mode service, Uda said. With the i-mode services, users can sell stocks, made bank transfers, check movie schedules and send e-mail. I-mode phone users rose to 1 million in the five months through Aug. 8. NTT DoCoMo shares rose 20,000 yen, or 1.2 percent, to 1.7 million yen. The shares have gained 83 percent since the beginning of the year. Aug/10/1999 5:20 (C) Copyright 1999 Bloomberg L.P. Any redistribution of Bloomberg content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Bloomberg L.P. Any reference to the material must be properly attributed to Bloomberg News. The information herein was obtained from sources which Bloomberg L.P. and its suppliers believe reliable, but they do not guarantee its accuracy. Neither the information, nor any opinion expressed, constitutes a solicitation of the purchase or sale of any securities or commodities.(C) Copyright 1999 Bloomberg L.P. BLOOMBERG, Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Financial Markets, Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg News Radio are trademarks, tradenames and service marks of Bloomberg L.P.