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To: Dennis Roth who wrote (11232)	3/26/2000 1:17:00 PM
From: gdichaz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Dennis: Puzzled you seem to think that since Ericsson has a web site which explains cdma2000 that they are completely on the side of the Q and have abandoned Europe and Nokia and most amazing (to me) of all you say: "But they are no longer sliming cdmaOne or cdma2000. They left Nokia standing alone." Are you serious? The test of being a "good European" is "sliming cdmaOne or cdma2000"? Mindboggling. If that is the "European" attitude and that is the test of European "solidarity" - i.e. "sliming" - then you are right, the Holy Wars are alive and active. What a tragedy ! Chaz

To: Dennis Roth who wrote (11232)	3/26/2000 2:06:00 PM
From: Drew Williams	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Dennis, everything you said is true. But . . . I think even Ericsson would be hard pressed to say what side they are on. It is impossible for a big company like Ericsson to change focus overnight. Microsoft has done that better than anyone else in recent memory, but only because of the personal power of Chairman Bill. Regardless of the decisions made at the top, Ericsson now has to deal with a lot of internal struggles between the old-guard GSM camps and those @#$$*&^$ Yankee CDMA upstarts who came along with Qualcomm's infrastructure business. They don't even speak a decent European language! The people who have standing within Ericsson all made their bones on GSM. The CDMA gang, sorry to say, are likely perceived, rightly or wrongly, as people who could not make their business pay for Qualcomm, necessitating the sale. Most of the GSM guys probably had their feelings hurt that management found it necessary to bring in outside talent at all. All in all, it looks to me like the typical mess following any merger or buyout. So, I think it will be another year or two before all this plays out. In the meantime, Ericsson will continue to make their profits on GSM and not CDMA. Until that changes (soon I hope) it is hard to say Ericsson is on our side.