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To: Jeff Vayda who wrote (7043)	2/28/2000 1:01:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 13582

Ericsson launches Web-based CDMA mobile phone ``Ericsson is entering the CDMA marketplace with a bang,' said Hakan Wretsell, general manager of Ericsson Mobile Phones in the Americas region. ``We will now have innovative, Internet-enabled mobile devices and accessories for every major technology in the world. This gives us a strong position for growing our business throughout the Americas.' Ericsson, the world's leading maker of mobile phone systems, has stepped up the pace of launching new cellphones as it tries to regain ground it lost in 1999 to its bigger rivals Nokia of Finland and U.S. Motorola (NYSE:MOT - news). A CDMA phone is important for Ericsson to boost its market share in North Americas as the CDMA standard is widely used there and is growing quickly as well in Latin America. GSM mobile standards dominates in Europe. Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (NasdaqNM:ERICY - news) cooperates with U.S. Qualcomm Inc (NasdaqNM:QCOM - news), a developer of wireless CDMA technology, on bringing CDMA technology to its mobile phones and other products. Ericsson shares closed 11 crowns higher at 840 crowns.

To: Jeff Vayda who wrote (7043)	2/28/2000 1:03:00 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

Although I don't post here because of lack of knowledge, I thought that the following post from RB (yes, RB) has an interesting tech-side discussion concerning the MOT announcement that I thought might benefit the thread: By: philzberg Reply To: 27577 by Rich_Bloem Monday, 28 Feb 2000 at 12:50 PM EST Post # of 27580 Even if Mot stuff is good, One basic advantage of HDR that really blew me away when I figured it out this weekend is that HDR can be independant of the cell towers. The HDR bos is compact and because of its independance it can be distributed to serve an area using very small cells. This imparts a tremendous advantage to HDR because of the inverse square law of radio signals. Radio signal strength declines as the square of the distance from the source. If someone implementing HDR can can mount them on 7-11 rooftops or on telephone poles to look like transformers, then a city can be blanketed by mini cells and this HDR will work as promised to bring full bore browsing power everywhere all the time. By also making compatible with the existing towers Q has the advantage to allow migration to the smaller cell size while still keeping its customers. With all its partners lined up, Q should steamroll over MOT. HDR will be bigger than CDMA 1. I sold all my MCOM today. Longer than ever!

To: Jeff Vayda who wrote (7043)	2/28/2000 1:05:00 PM
From: Boplicity	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 13582

The carriers have been complaining about giving up spectrum to offer HDR, that has been one of the road blocks in the USA. Now if they can get HDR like performance and not have to give up spectrum they should be real happy. The equipment suppliers should be happy too, since they will not have to pay QCOM. The only positive I see is that mots 1X plus will speed the deployment of CDMA. It remains to be seen, but I bet you QCOM has patents issues with MOT's 1X plus. The complexity of the QCOM story grows daily. Ahhh the labor of it all. LOL Greg