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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (4375)	4/25/2000 9:57:00 AM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Respond to of 34857

Maurice, the MPT's positions presented on the Japanese link indicate that there is a lot of concern about avoiding interference between 3G and PHS, and between 3G and "fixed stations" (not sure what that is--fixed wireless of some kind I guess). I believe one of the reasons they want to limit the number of carriers to 3 is so that they will not have to issue too much spectrum all at once, which could cause interference with these other, incumbent systems. Also note that, from what I can tell, they will not be issuing the carriers the desired amount of spectrum (20 MHz) up front. I believe this again has to do with a desire to avoid interference. Now people on the QCOM threads are free to theorize about how the Japanese are doing this for their own nationalistic ends yada yada yada. It should be noted, however, that while the MPT has a limit of 3 carriers per area (which no party responding to the original drafts disagreed with!), the MPT is not restricting the number of applicants to 3. Therefore, even under the MPT's current limit of 3 carriers per area QCOM is free to bid against DDI, its effective customer, in a given area. Perhaps QCOM, DoCoMo, and JT can all have the Tokyo metro area! I'm sure DoCoMo execs are quaking in their getas. However, it looks like QCOM will try to make a big political mess of all this, demanding that the MPT open up a "fourth carrier" spot. The reaction of the QCOM thread in this debate is quite predictable.