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To: Clarksterh who wrote (8434)	4/8/2000 12:44:00 PM
From: Webster	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

Clark, could you or someone on this board provide any comment on the following regarding NOK's wcdma rationalization: A while back I recall reading posts on SI concerning qcom's settlement with IDC which allowed IDC the ability to work with 10 mhz spectrum using both qcom and idc cdma IPR. Could NOK be rationalizing this as part of their wcdma strategy and discussions with docomo. If new spectrum being licensed provides 10 mhz of bandwidth then perhaps NOK rationalizes their wcdma strategy this way. I could be totally off base here, but thought I would ask. Thanks Web.

To: Clarksterh who wrote (8434)	4/8/2000 1:35:00 PM
From: A.L. Reagan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13582

Here are some recent NOK patents, which I haven't a clue as to relevancy. A big batch was published 3/23/00. Source of info, with search on Nokia (which returned a huge number of items): ec.espacenet.com Some of these relating to the dynamic allocation of carrier bands may have to do with 1xtreme or whatever it's called these days. I am totally out of my league on this stuff. Patent Number Title WO0016584 A METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING ALARMS WO0016581 IMPROVED METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR CHANGING CELLS WO0016580 A METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING A BEARER PROPERTIES AT RETRANSMISSION WO0016579 CHARGING OF SUBSCRIBERS WITH LOCALISED SERVICE AREAS IN A MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK WO0016578 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CHANNEL ALLOCATION IN DUAL BAND NETWORK WO0016577 HANDOVER BETWEEN MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORKS WO0016576 IMPLEMENTING SIMULTANEOUS CALLS IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK WO0016573 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC RADIO RESOURCE ALLOCATION WO0016572 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC RADIO RESOURCE ALLOCATION WO0016567 TRANSMITTING CALL-RELATED DATA BETWEEN SWITCHING CENTRES WO0016566 EXECUTION OF SERVICES IN INTELLIGENT NETWORK WO0016504 A METHOD OF BASE STATION RECONFIGURATION WO0016494 RAKE RECEIVER WO0016111 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING US6038695 Data transmission method and equipment for encoding a signal US6038675 Data processing circuit US6038458 Method for selecting a signal, and a cellular radio system US6038238 Method to realize discontinuous transmission in a mobile phone system US6037845 RF three-way combiner/splitter and many, many more.

To: Clarksterh who wrote (8434)	4/8/2000 1:45:00 PM
From: Dennis Roth	Respond to of 13582

Clark, if I understand the situation correctly, the recent cross licensing agreement with Motorola and the previous one last fall with Ericsson gives Qualcomm access to Motorola's and Ericsson's W-CDMA IPR. Between their own IPR and that of Motorola and Ericsson that they have access to, what's left of the necessary W-CDMA IPR that Qualcomm does not already have? Nokia needs to have some essential patent that cannot be worked around in order to be in a strong bargining position. Perhaps they were hoping for some GSM like patent pool for W-CDMA but Qualcomm's refusal to join and MOT's and ERICY's seperate agreements with QCOM make that a faint hope. My question was rhetorical, Clark. I don't expect you have the answer. DPR