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To: Clarksterh who wrote (4712)	12/31/1999 1:43:00 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Respond to of 13582

Clark, thanks for the clarification. There are so many names that deal with one or another aspect of CDMA that it's easy to get confused. The only thing I recall, after so many years, is a conversation I had with Richard Grannis, probably around 1994. His view was that the agreement did not allow IDC to use the patents for narrow band, only for broadband, which I interpreted in its generic meaning. The result of the agreement was that IDC did not have royalty free access to patents for narrow band applications (i.e., CDMAOne). Grannis also saw that IDC could set up WLL networks and eventually connect those networks, but he mentioned that there was no standard for such a system, whereas Q! had already succeeded in establishing a standard for narrow band CDMA.