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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (3565)	2/5/2000 1:55:00 PM
From: Peter J Hudson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 34857

Tero, >>It's now seven months since Qualcomm started leaking that Nokia and Motorola will buy chipsets from them. They started the hype with some US analysts last July.<< Do you have any evidence that this rumor came from Qualcomm? I don't remember speculation of a Nokia-Qualcomm asic deal being attributed to sources at Qualcomm. >>As far as I know, Nokia already has a W-CDMA chipset provider selected. As do Motorola, Matsushita and others. And it sure ain't Qualcomm.<< I believe the potential deal is for CDMAone / 1XRTT asics not for WCDMA chipsets. You didn't throw WCDMA in there just to confuse the issue? The question is will Nokia produce 1XRTT capable handsets and if they do whose chipset will they use? Tero, what is your opinion on the competing 2.5G technologies. GPRS and 1XRTT will be rolling out at approximately the same time to satisfy the need for mobile data. Which is the superior technology? Which will provide the best data rate? Which will support the most voice calls per sector? Which is the easiest to implement. I am honestly interested in in your opinion. I don't recall you doing a head to head comparison of GPRS and 1XRTT. Thanks Pete