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To: Bux who wrote (3443)	11/20/1999 5:30:00 PM
From: Mike Buckley	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 13582

Bux, Now that they are suing Q (again) Yours is the first mention of a new law suit that I've seen. Could you please provide the source of that information? --Mike Buckley

To: Bux who wrote (3443)	11/20/1999 7:02:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13582

Bux, same thing applies to W-CDMA. Ericy will not succeed, even with Qualcomm technology, in making W-CDMA work without warble and other defects. The more it diverges from cdma2000, the less likely it will be to ever see the light of day. NTT better be feeling really nervous. They are waiting to rollout their W-CDMA in 2001. Good luck, they'll need it. Meanwhile, the cdmaOne networks will clean up. There is pressure increasing to make W-CDMA a cdma2000 clone and it will look very much the same. Meanwhile, GSM network operators are being suckered into increasing their commitment to GSM, expecting a smooth upgrade to 3G which is never going to happen. But Ericy will have sold a lot of GSM to them in the meantime. Ericy would love China to fall for the trick. It seems though that Charlene and Zhu have come up with the goods and China will escape to the CDMA world before they waste billions on GSM, heading up that blind alley. Zhu and co are pretty smart cookies and they will have seen what was going on. They were caught between a rock and a hard place, so it was unpleasant for them whatever they did. But they had to swallow hard and sign up to CDMA. It's the best. Mqurice PS: As you say, what a joke that the hagfish are up to their old tricks. Trying to renegotiate the deal. As you say, the chances of any realistic deception is near zero. Ericy is about the grottiest company I've come across. What's amazing is that people still don't get it that this is just a continuation of their old tricks. Qualcomm has always been on the right side of such events. Ericy has always been on the wrong side. How many times do suckers have to get taken in? Incredible that Ericy has the gall to try it on. Then again, maybe there is some small issue. Of course, if I were Q! I'd enthusiastically agree that renegotiation is appropriate and I'd want a BIG chunk of money for the ex-Q! employees and Q! since WWeb is obviously much huger than anticipated and Ericy got away with a bargain.