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To: Rick who wrote (51327)	11/21/1999 9:34:00 PM
From: FESHBACH_DISCIPLE	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

Listen,standards are not relevant.Thats why i am iniating this stock this weekend as a short.Let me explain. Omnipoint was down and out because they were gsm player and they had a small market in the usa.Then someone took them over because he realized that spectrum is spectrum is spectrum.Why??? Because chips like the one posted below,level the field for everyone. There is no one world standard comong.No one will care going forward. Respectfully my opinion. Tuesday 2 November 1999 Breakthrough chip Motorola hones in on a truly mobile phone DAVE CARPENTER AP Motorola Inc. introduced a new computer chip yesterday that may eventually allow mobile phones to work with most any wireless network in the world. The communications-equipment maker's stock shot higher following the announcement, rising $4.625 a share to $102.125 on the New York Stock Exchange. Motorola said mobile-phone manufacturers will be able to use the same chip in all products, regardless of which market they are being built for. The so-called DSP56690 processor can support all the commonly used wireless standards: code-division multiple access, global system for mobile communications, integrated digital enhanced network and time-division multiple access, as well as satellite-based products. The chip also can be used for satellite-based signals and deliver wireless Internet services. "No other semiconductor manufacturer in the world offers one baseband processor that can handle all of the world's cellular standards," said Mario Rivas, general manager of Motorola's wireless-subscriber-systems group in Austin, Tex., where the announcement was made. Analysts hailed the new chip as significant, but not enough by itself to make a true "go anywhere" mobile phone possible. "This is only one half of what's needed to facilitate this," said Seamus McAteer, an industry analyst at Jupiter Communications consultancy in New York. The cell phone would also need to be equipped with different chips for the varying radio-frequency interfaces in use. "Going forward, it's not a stretch to expect that those elements will be put on one piece of silicon," McAnteer said. "You're increasingly seeing more functionality being added to the same piece of silicon." Experts also found it noteworthy that the new chip was introduced by Motorola, since the Illinois-based company was badly beaten by rivals in the transition to digital cellular phones. "It's a reflection that they learned the painful lesson of not being first to market with their second-generation cellular phones," said Herschel Shosteck, president of Herschel Shosteck Associates, telecommunications consultants based in Wheaton, Md. Developing the chip first won't pay dividends for Motorola for two to three years, but "that in no way discounts or diminishes the advantage of being first market," he added.