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To: jhg_in_kc who wrote (49022)	11/10/1999 11:26:00 PM
From: JGoren	Respond to of 152472

The history is too long to explain in detail. Ericy settled lawsuit with Qcom and they agreed to support a single standard with three modes. Instead ITU proposed two additional standards, one urged by DECT (whatever that is) and the other by TDMA crowd. During the early standards debates, Ericy made a big deal about the chip rate; they wanted it something other than 3.84, saying the 3.84 rate would degrade efficiency. The real reason was that it did not want IS-95 Qualcomm cdma to be backwards compatible. Because the chip rate for W-CDMA had to be different from the chip rate for GSM, GSM carriers would have to make huge system changes to go 3G but cdma carriers would not. Ericy wanted to destroy the competitive advantage in upgrading. That has been capitulated. Ericy has made some interesting statements as the ITU standard proposal was issued that it did not want to have to develop two separate lines. This could mean Ericy will be fully supporting and going cdma2000. This could potentially be big news re upgrade since carriers tend not to change platforms. In the old days on the board, you will see a lot of discussion of the PR campaign and the details; do a word check for 3.84 and/or vaporware. These two new and unanticipated standards could breathe more life into TDMA. Second, DECT could be Nokia or other European players searching for a way to keep the old European platform going and out of the Qualcomm juggernaut; I don't know enough about it, except that I am very suspicious of the Europeans. I am not a techie and am searching for technical analysis on what these standards could mean.