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To: engineer who wrote (1318)	9/7/1999 6:26:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

Neopoint is owned by, I think, LG [but maybe it was one of the other Korean companies] which already has a license agreement. Neopoint is run by exQ! people. There was recent news about it [probably on their Web site]. Bux, re <GSTRF is only as secure as the gateways. Once the signal is decoded I think an old-fashioned wire-tap would suffice. > The signals come from space in CDMA mode and through the gizzards in the gateway straight down a fibre pipe. I don't think anyone is going to intercept those calls unless they do a wiretap on the recipient's twisted pair. Since people making the call might be the target of the wiretap, it won't be possible to tap them. If they made a call from their twisted pair phone at home, it would be easy to tap, but you can forget it for a person with a Globalstar phone. Other than the FBI and National Security Agency trying to require the calls to be sent via their systems in parallel to the Globalstar system. Mqurice PS: It's Vodafone, not Vodaphone. Jon I think it's a bit like nite instead of night and color instead of colour. Just a more groovy way of writing it. But I bet it causes them problems.

To: engineer who wrote (1318)	9/7/1999 3:39:00 PM
From: moat	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 13582

Could someone help me out with these two questions ... I understand we have these three handsets: Q1960 is for operation at 1900 MHz (no analog) Q860 is for operation at 800 MHz (& analog) Q2760 is for operation at both 800 and 1900 MHz (& analog) Question 1. What does the SprintPCS network run on? Is that whole network on 1900 MHz? Or are some cities on 800 MHz? Or does every city run on both 1900 and 800 MHz? What about GTE and BellAtlantic? How does a typical consumer in a typical city figure out which band his city runs on, and which phone he should buy? I am in California and I am about to switch from CellularOne to SprintPCS (just waiting for the Thinphone), but I am confused about which phone to buy and in which cities each model will work. (and I am someone who has read Qualcomm's 10Ks!) Question 2. Don't you guys think, for example, SprintPCS should market the CDMA "brand" (like Intel does with "Intel Inside"), to point out its quality of service? Right now, a consumer walking into a Sprint (or an AT&T) store would have no idea what technology he is buying (TMDA, CDMA). All he sees is the choice of service plans (dollars for minutes). Why aren't CDMA operators pushing the "CDMA Inside = Voice Quality" marketing spin? The typical consumer is clueless about TDMA, CDMA, PCS, Cellular, modes, bands, 800/1900 MHz, etc. But he knows/wants quality of service, and CDMA is the best technology ... why don't they (operators and Qualcomm) spin "CDMA Quality" in front of the consumer? (as everyone does with "Digital Quality")