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To: William Hunt who wrote (7037)	3/9/2000 12:32:00 PM
From: Dennis Roth	Respond to of 13582

MOT 1X Plus versus HDR. >> Has anyone seen this 5Mbps data rate demonstrated or is this just talk from MOT ? << No. I was at CTIA Wireless 2000 and I saw Qualcomm and Lucent conduct live demonstations of real HDR with prototypes. I went to the Motorola pavilion and asked to see a demontration of 1X Plus. They had none. They had no protoypes to show either working prototypes or non-working dummy mock-ups. I asked when they planned to do field trials of 1XPlus, they couldn't tell me. They couldn't tell me when it would be commercially available. The MOT man said he couldn't demonstrate the system but he could talk me through it. Mot couldn't show a prototype, didn't have a time frame for a field trial, didn't have a time frame for chip set sampling, didn't have a time frame for commercial rollout. Contrast this to HDR. HDR is undergoing field trial now, can and was being demonstrated, chip sets are due later this year, first commerical system in Korea slated for next year. My WAG is that 1X Plus is two years behind HDR in becoming a commercial reality. I suspect that what is really going on here is that MOT has a design on paper, saw that the HDR bandwagon was being to roll and wanted to stop service providers from making early commitments HDR by promising something better if they just wait for 1XPlus. I'm afraid a press release and an arm waving verbal talk through on an exhibit floor doesn't do it for me. Does anyone following this thread have the URL to a white paper or simular techinical documentation that expalins how 1XPlus works? Something that goes further into the techniccal details of 1XPlus than the press release? 1XPlus may sound good on paper, but I need to see something working in silicon before I'd conclude that 1XPlus threatens HDR. Since 1XPlus complies with the 1XRTT standard and uses the CDMA 2000 air interface, IMHO, 1XPlus does not do away with the need for license from Qualcomm to implement it.