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To: chirodoc who wrote (4547)	5/2/2000 7:50:00 AM
From: t2	Respond to of 34857

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To: chirodoc who wrote (4547)	5/2/2000 11:18:00 AM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 34857

It's strange... I get this distinct feeling that there are tons of people bearing grudges on this thread. Yet I, with a characteristic Nordic directness, am the only one who admits the fact. Go figure. Naturally, we need to acknowledge that DDI choosing cdma2000 would be a victory for Qualcomm. What's sad is the nature of the victory. DDI was supposed to be a slam-dunk for the cdma2000 crowd... yet it has managed to almost negate the effect of its 3G decision. By providing a steady stream of damaging comments about cdma2000 to the press, DDI seemed to pave way for a W-CDMA decision. But if it now reverses its direction, it ends up picking the standard it has itself critiziced - thus making it look like the choice was made by flipping a coin or under coercion. What was the motivation of DDI in first leaking like a sieve and the publicly denying that they have made a decision; first one way and then the other? It could be a negotiation ploy... or it could be cluelessness. Either way, DDI is managing to look like a company deeply riven by internecine warfare. Which brings us to Korea. A DDI strongly backing cdma2000 from the start and convincingly arguing its benefits is one thing. A DDI publicly vacillating and wringing its arms like a Hamlet in Japan is a another. I think that the regional influence of DDI's 3G decision has convincingly been undermined by the company itself. Let's stay tuned for Hong Kong and Korea. Tero