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To: Barry Grossman who wrote (36738)	1/24/2000 3:04:00 AM
From: The Prophet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Well, Barry, once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, an Evil Empire called ERICY did not like that a tiny upstart called the Q had invented a superior method of wireless transmission, called CDMA. Because of the European approach of forced governmental standard setting, ERICY and the other established cell guys had gotten together to push an inferior technology called GSM (and TDMA) in Europe because, at the time, CDMA was still in its infancy and most observers at the time said that, not only would it not work, but it would violate the laws of physics too. So, the Europeans went ahead with their GSM, while the tiny Q ironed out the bugs in its CDMA. Lo and behold, an explosion in demand for cell phones created an insatiable thirst for bandwidth, but available air spectrum was narrow and expensive. Because CDMA is far more efficient in its use of spectrum, the Evil Empire quickly realized that it, too, would need to gravitate to CDMA in its next generation of phone technology called, 3G (Third Generation). Outraged at the possibility that it would have to pay the Tiny Q a slice of every single CDMA device it sold, ERICY sought to create its own "flavor" of CDMA called Wideband CDMA or W-CDMA. Before long, the Tiny Q and the Evil Empire were locked in litigation, with the Evil Empire far more sophisticated in public relations. The Tiny Q's stock was rocked and stomped on by virtually every analyst, as they questioned its "unreasonable" claims and royalty demands and questioned why it was behaving in such a rude manner, unbecoming of the tiny entity that it was. But one day, as trial was approaching, the inevitable happened. ERICY caved and settled the case, giving the Tiny Q virtually everything it had sought in the litigation. The Street quickly realized that the Q really had been right all along and that we still were in Kansas, after all. The rest of the story is still being written but, 3000% later, I can say with certainty that the Tiny Q is now properly recognized as the Mighty Q. Best, Prophet