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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (38501)	8/23/1999 7:33:00 AM
From: qdog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

See QCOM coming? Is that like a 3 Card Monty dealer seeing a "fish" walking down the street? Is that like a pick pocket in Amsterdam seeing a wallet full of money in Dam Square walking by? Yeah... I'd be real careful about your words in describing Billion $ill; he is a definite hustler. Gates only has one thing on his mind, how to expand his clutches in the computing realm and nothing else. All that facilitate are as welcome as a rubber in a cathouse; use once and throw away. How many of those q bucks do you care to wager that $ill will do to QCOM what he does to everybody? Can't change the spots on a leopard Maurice. $ill will use QCOM as needed and then toss them away. QCOM may own "3G" as you suggest, but there are no stipends that require operators to use Bloatware $ill's OS or WK's solutions in 3G. I can assure you, unequivocally, that in Europe they won't. I'll go even further and suggest that most of the world won't either. Shoo be do be doo.............

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (38501)	8/23/1999 10:57:00 AM
From: qdog	Respond to of 152472

Don't sound like no 2Mb 3G stuff to me....... Companies team up on wireless standards Last Update: 0:39 AM ET Aug 23, 1999 NewsWatch NEW YORK (AP) -- Lucent Technologies (LU: news, msgs), Nokia (NOK: news, msgs) and 3Com (COMS: news, msgs) are helping found a new industry group that will adopt standards for wireless computer networks and certify products that meet those standards. The Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance, WECA, hopes to make go-anywhere computing as commonplace as using a mobile phone by making it less of a gamble for consumers and network operators to invest in expensive wireless equipment. While users of laptop computers and other portable devices can already dial-up to the Internet and private company networks with a wireless modem, the connections are often slow and unreliable from location to location. The industry envisions a more robust, dependable link with local wireless networks deployed everywhere -- airports, parks, highways, homes -- like the cellular "pods" that provide continuous mobile phone service as a person travels. So far, such "local area networks," or LANs, have been deployed only sparingly in corporate settings such as a company building or campus. But in a sign of things to come, the new IBook laptop from Apple Computer (AAPL: news, msgs)was introduced with an optional wireless transmitter that allows users to roam their homes or offices freely while using the Internet. "One of the visions of wireless in general is that you're no longer tied to a physical location when you want to communicate," said Craig Mathias, chairman of the Wireless LAN Research Laboratory at the Worcester Polytecnic Institute in Massachusetts. "Most people who travel with computers have to find a telephone that they physically plug into. It's so nice with a wireless network. You just turn it on." WECA, expected to be introduced Monday, will establish a test lab to certify the compatibility of any member's products. A seal of approval would be issued to reassure would-be purchasers of expensive wireless equipment for computers and networks. WECA "will enable true multi-vendor interoperability by certifying that systems from different manufacturers can be used within the same wireless infrastructure," the group said in a statement. WECA's founding cast includes Aironet (AIRO: news, msgs), Intersil, and Symbol Technologies (SBL: news, msgs). But the group gains immediate credibility with Lucent, perhaps the top name in communications technology, as well as a major name in mobile phones with Nokia, and in data networking with 3Com. Conspicuously absent for now, however, are Cisco Systems (CSCO: news, msgs) and Nortel Networks (NT: news, msgs), Lucent's two chief rivals in data networking and communications technology.