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To: Ruffian who wrote (2222)	10/12/1999 10:36:00 AM
From: Mika Kukkanen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13582

12/10/99 15:21:59 Army Ousted from Mobile Market China's People's Liberation Army will be banned from offering commercial cellular services, according to top telecom officials attending Telecom 99. The PLA had been hoping to build a national cdmaOne network to rival the new system being deployed by China United Telecommunications Corp (Unicom). Liu Cai, director general of policy at the Ministry of Information Industry said the PLA's four trial networks in Beijing, Shanghai, Xian and Guangzhou would be used for private network purposes only by the PLA, while part-owner China Telecom will divest its interest.

To: Ruffian who wrote (2222)	10/12/1999 10:55:00 AM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

Nextel..... wirelessweek.com From the October 11, 1999, issue of Wireless Week Nextel, DOJ Show Congress The Money By Caron Carlson WASHINGTON--Responding to a congressional investigation into the confidential spectrum agreement Nextel Communications Inc. signed with the government in August, the Department of Justice and Nextel, like the FCC before them, began with a discussion of money--something every lawmaker relates to. Nextel Chairman Daniel Akerson opened his Oct. 1 response to the House Committee on Commerce by describing the "substantially enhanced recoveries" the government and other parties would receive from Nextel's plan to take over the PCS licenses held by bankrupt NextWave Personal Communications Inc.: "[T]he FCC would receive a minimum cash consideration of approximately $2.1 billion, twice the amount it would receive under the NextWave debtors' plan of reorganization." (Emphasis not added.) Similarly, the Justice Department's acting assistant attorney general, Jon Jennings, points out in his opening paragraph, in a letter also filed Oct. 1, that NextWave owed the government more than $4 billion when it filed for bankruptcy protection. Jennings notes in the next paragraph that Nextel's proposal "would result in a recovery for the government far greater than that proposed by NextWave." The bold appeal to congressional budgetary sensibilities appears somewhat incongruous with the focus of the investigation, not to mention with the FCC's virtual mantra that the goal of a spectrum auction is not the revenue it generates. The Commerce Committee and numerous industry players have questioned not so much the end result of Nextel's Aug. 10 pact, but rather the means used to achieve that end. In other words, most of the puzzlement engendered by the pact focuses on the process leading to it, not on its merits, fiscal or otherwise. Akerson told the Commerce Committee that Nextel initiated negotiations leading to the agreement. The company sought "to advance a number of public interest goals of the Congress and the FCC," he said, figuring that the FCC's litigation over NextWave's licenses would prevent the spectrum from being used in the foreseeable future. While Nextel publicized in mid-August that it had received the government's "endorsement" of its latest spectrum acquisition plan, it turns out all it had done was "to engage parties in discussions regarding possible resolution of the NextWave Chapter 11 cases ...," according to Akerson. He agreed with the Commerce Committee that Nextel is not a party in interest in the NextWave case and therefore has not submitted a plan. All parties to the pact emphasize that the government is not obligated to support Nextel's pursuit of NextWave's spectrum--in other words, no deal has yet been cut. None of the parties have mentioned, however, that if Nextel's plan is eventually submitted for consideration and another carrier tops it, the government has already agreed that Nextel, and only Nextel, will receive an exclusive termination fee worth millions of dollars. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit is scheduled to begin hearing the NextWave case Nov. 1.

To: Ruffian who wrote (2222)	10/12/1999 11:01:00 AM
From: slacker711	Respond to of 13582

More info on Qualcomm and W-CDMA....Looks like they will have to negotiate GSM IPR. edtn.com Top Product News... Qualcomm preps wideband-CDMA chip set By Peter Clarke EE Times (10/11/99, 3:40 p.m. EDT) GENEVA — Qualcomm Inc. is preparing a dedicated chip set that will support Wideband-CDMA. The company is also in discussions concerning intellectual property that would allow the company to include GSM circuits within chip sets for multi-mode handsets. At Telecom 99, Qualcomm (San Diego) announced its intention to develop the MSM5100 chip set to support the 1X and 3X forms of multi-carrier (MC) CDMA, and to develop the MSM5200 chip set with support for direct sequence Wideband-CDMA . Wideband-CDMA, otherwise known the Direct Sequence form of the frequency domain duplex third-generation (3G) mobile communications, is likely to be deployed in Europe and Japan as an alternative to the multi-carrier form of CDMA, also known as cdma2000, which is also supported by Qualcomm. The MSM5100 is an upgrade to the MSM5000, which only supports the 1X mode. The MSM5000 is set to begin fields trials in South Korea in the first quarter of 2000, with commercial production to follow those trials. Qualcomm was at the center of a row over intellectual property earlier this year concerning patents held by Qualcomm and L.M. Ericsson. The dispute, which risked derailing standards-setting procedures, was settled when both companies agreed to share their intellectual property with others using the standards, and with Ericsson agreeing to buy Qualcomm's infrastructure business. Qualcomm executives gave few details and no time scales for the MSM5100 and MSM5200. Johan Lodenius, vice president of marketing and product management for CDMA technologies at Qualcomm, said the chips will be complete RF-to-baseband solutions accompanied by appropriate suites of software. The baseband chips will be based on ARM processor cores and Qualcomm DSP circuits, he said. The MSM5000 made use of an ARM7 core, but Lodenius declined to say whether the MSM5100 or MSM5200, which will be aimed at 3G terminals, would use more advanced cores from ARM. "We will use future versions of the ARM. We have agreements with ARM. We will use ARM9 and ARM10 when it is advantageous to us," Lodenius said. "We make heavy use of the DSP circuits in our solutions and we can off-load a lot of the work there," he said. "For example, speaker-independent voice recognition can be supported in the DSP without much impact on the processor." Lodenius stressed that the MSM5100 and MSM5200 were being designed to a common platform. "It's not a question of when we put the chips out. It's a question of what the market wants," he said. CDMA 1X terminals are due to be deployed towards the end of next year, creating a demand for MSM5000 silicon. MSM5100 and MSM5200 could be expected to follow later. Lodenius would not say whether Qualcomm will produce versions of the chip sets re-optimized for use in basestations. "We will remain in basestations. But we can do things differently in basestations because the constraints are different. So basestation versions may evolve differently," he said. Also at Telecom 99, Qualcomm said it was looking at integrating GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) circuitry into future chip sets to better support the design of multi-mode terminals. "We have to work with GSM," said Irwin Jacobs, chairman and chief executive officer of Qualcomm. "We've been having such discussions. It's mainly a matter of intellectual property and timing rather than technology," he said.