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To: w molloy who wrote (3415)	1/17/2000 11:28:00 AM
From: Jim Lurgio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5195

I don't think Nokia would give up their home in SD and it's probably better to expand there than have two operations.

To: w molloy who wrote (3415)	1/17/2000 5:21:00 PM
From: D.J.Smyth	Respond to of 5195

Molly. Larry Paulson's comment "This is Nokia's sole CDMA center for the world," said Larry Paulson, vice president of product line management for CDMA." IDC's engineers have been to SanDiego operation many times, even taken classes in several California Universities there on behalf of the Nokia/IDC project. Nokia also has a huge WCDMA center both in Japan and Finland, Japan and China; all test sites and implimentation centers. Mr. Paulson does not distinguish between narrowband CDMA and wideband CDMA in the article. To assume that because Nokia has a CDMA operation in SanDiego that IDC is not present isn't right. Nokia signed the 3g partnership with IDC for transferrence of IDC WCDMA 3g blocks, not Qualcomm (nevertheless, Nokia and Qualcomm do have a relationship for shared technology - some of which is utilized in Nokia's CDMA based ASICs). Nokia is not going to be left out of any party, including a CDMA2000 (conversion from narrowband) party either. Nokia has operations all over the known world. They employ nearly 1000 people in Japan now too. Does this mean that Japan is more important than SanDiego? What is the point?