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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (5495)	1/21/2000 12:56:00 AM
From: Boplicity	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13582

Ask clark or engineer directly you might get an ans. trust no one else, those two knows this stuff hands down, everyone is a just repeating, not understanding if you get my drift. Also, you where spot on about old vs. new, except it, and drop it please, there is no point in going on about it anymore. The Korean news is big, I'm beginning to really hate MOT, I have friends that work their too, MOT is big bully, Johnny come lately, and PO'd they didn't invent CDMA. Greg

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (5495)	1/21/2000 1:49:00 AM
From: Clarksterh	Respond to of 13582

Jim - I am not going to try to answer all of your questions at this sitting (at a paragraph apiece it would take too much time), but I'll answer some: is it as subject to static interference as TDMA? CDMA in general works because it is interference resistant, and all the neighboring users are interference to you. Thus, CDMA (of whatever type) can fit more users in the same bandwidth, and with less need for planning to avoid interference. are royalties paid to theQ less than the main CDMA? Qualcomm has a very strong hand for getting the same royalties for all mobile cell CDMA systems of any flavor. Having looked at a lot of their patents, and those of some of the competition, I believe that they have several patents that cannot be avoided in a mobile cell CDMA system, and I know of no other company with anywhere near as strong a patent position in mobile cell CDMA. But ultimately this is partly a Qualcomm corporate strategy question. To date Qualcomm has said they are charging the same rate whether the it is W-CDMA, CDMA-2000, or CDMAOne. That's all for now. If you are still interested, I'll try to answer some of the others later, although the answers may be a little vague when it comes to performance because performance is so dependent on how much the carriers are willing to spend. Clark PS To add to the list of people to trust on technical questions, I have never seen Malloy make a mistake (OTOH I've made at least one huge one!).