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To: Lipko who wrote (61131)	1/9/2000 11:13:00 PM
From: Ponderosa	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

It gets easier to confuse me these days... The recent Gilder article suggests DoCoMo uses TDMA technology in this quote; "Demonstrating the huge market for wireless data, DOCOMO nonetheless currently suffers from TDMA (time division multiple access) and thus labors under a need to break up bursty data flows into a lockstep stutter of tiny time slots. As a result, DOCOMO's momentum is flagging and the company had to resort to a handset giveaway in October. The fastest growing cellular phone companies were the CDMA team of DDI and IDO, which for the first time together gained more than one half (51.7 percent according to Merrill Lynch) of all new October sales, in a market with an installed base still almost totally dominated by NTT. The CDMA advance will accelerate this month with the introduction by DDI and IDO of CDMAOne, a 64 kilobit per second data service. Faster than a typical dialup interconnection, this IS95B technology is already being widely sold in Korea. This service will be launched in the U.S. sometime in 2000." However, the Business Week article says: "To protect it's lead, DoCoMo keeps up a brutal research pace. At a state of the art research facility in the Yokosuka Research Park, south west of Tokyo, about 700 engineers are testing transmission equipment, cellular phones, palmtops and car navigation systems based on CDMA. The technology was developed by the US Military and commercialized by Qualcomm Corp. But DoCoMo enhanced the basic platform with its own home grown mathematics. By proselytizing for his own brand of CDMA around the world, Tachikawa hopes to extend i-mode's reach..." OK now, are both articles right in that, maybe, DoCoMo's phones are currently using TDMA but that they now have seen the light and will be moving to CDMA, or, is George G just wrong about DoCoMo and TDMA? Can anyone tell me if DoCoMo, will be / is, paying QCOM royalties and maybe generally throw some informed light on this apparent conflicted reporting? Many thanks in advance...