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To: Jim Lurgio who wrote (2892)	12/3/1999 9:06:00 AM
From: Ruffian	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

<Q: Qualcomm President and COO Richard Sulpizio has said you might use some of the $1.6 billion in cash and equivalents on the books to acquire GSM technology in order to build dual-mode chipsets for both CDMA and GSM networks. Can you confirm this? A: Yes, we?re looking around at possible acquisitions. We?ll work with someone who has GSM rights. It could be a strategic relationship such as cross-licensing. We need to find a solution. A strong enough acquisition is another way to go. We could use cash and stock. This is new path for us -- we?ve never done acquisitions before.> MAPS Networks my friend, big chip money. Ruff

To: Jim Lurgio who wrote (2892)	12/3/1999 8:05:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 34857

Jim, China is heavily into GSM. So is Europe. Toast is all they have, so while CDMA goes rolling over the top of GSM, the GSM people need to be made as backward compatible as possible or they'll go hungry [which makes people unhappy]. So, as CDMA is established in, say, Shanghai, subscribers will be able to buy a CDMA/GSM handset and roam to GSM networks. Same in Europe. CDMA won't appear ready built-out all across Europe. Say the very first network is in Newbury, England, a person would not want to be able to use their phone only in Newbury. The phone would need to be able to work in London too, on a GSM network. Operators need to escape from their GSM problem without losing millions of customers. They need to change their networks to CDMA. They need multimode handsets to do that. They are going to have a lot of trouble doing it smoothly. GSM is toast! Don't be confused about that! Maurice