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To: DaveMG who wrote (2407)	10/15/1999 5:02:00 PM
From: cfoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

<Airspan is not currently a licensee of QUALCOMM's> In an earlier post someone quoted a Q spokesman that Airspan was not a licensee yet. In response someone pointed out the word "yet" and added that a company does not need to become a licensee until they are going to use the technology commercially. If this is a first rollout for Airspan, above reasoning would fit their not being included in list of licensees. Of course, earlier posts and this are all speculation (with some wishful thinking?). Can anyone expand on this?

To: DaveMG who wrote (2407)	10/15/1999 6:51:00 PM
From: gdichaz	Respond to of 13582

DaveMG: Yes, the interesting question is not so much whether Airspan is a current Q licensee but whether it needs such a license for its data network. And perhaps whether it might choose a Q license to have the flexibility to combine mobile with fixed point to multipoint. WLL is at the data CDMA crossroads where "to be or not to be" (a Q licensee) is the question. And then there is NextWave. Will NextWave chose to not use a Q license? Perhaps we have a case for a quote from Shakespeare since NextWave is in some sense an early Q offspring - "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is, to have an ungrateful child". Will be most interesting to see how the NextWave saga plays out - if the FCC doesn't abort it before birth. Chaz