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To: HairBall who wrote (42270)	3/5/2000 10:58:00 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 99985

LG, no I do not know, but if my memory serves me right, I think there were only an handful of companies who tried to commercialize the military technology for consumer use. The main issue was computing power to apply the duplex process and wring out more information from a frequency band. Voice is not linear and there are many gaps who are not essentials for transfer of information. To fill those gaps with other information and then reconstruct the information in real time demands lots of computing power. QCOM survived the cash crunch and succeeded. If I remember correctly MOT also tried and failed but I think now Erricson has succeeded in something very similar, and I bet you Siemens,Philips,Alcatel, Nortel, Lucent and others are working on similar technologies. IMHO QCOM patent rights are worthless it has do do more with market acceptance like in the VCR wars. BWDIK Haim