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To: Diamond Jim who wrote (5095)	5/30/2000 8:26:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 34857

Diamond, while there are companies claiming they don't need to pay Q! royalties, we should keep our lawyers handy. Courts are where lawyers are needed. Ericy didn't buckle until the courthouse steps. The W-CDMA gang from NTT to Nokia, SETI and Korea seem determined to pretend that they have significant IPR needed to make 3G happen and that Q! should buckle and be nice and just do an IPR swap. My Tonka Truck for your Dirty Great Turbo-charged, Inter-cooled Volvo. Most people learn how to swap at primary school. Some don't 'get it' and try bullying and other unpleasant tactics. In the grown-up world, we use courts to settle these matters if the grown-ups can't discuss the matter sensibly and come to amicable property right agreements. If things get really serious and some country doesn't recognize legal principles, there are always Tomahawks [which are much more precise than old-fashioned gun-boat diplomacy]. By a happy circumstance, the company with the need for IPR protection, Q!, is a good buddy of the country with the means to enforce legal rules on IPR. Meanwhile, how about that GPRS and EDGE stuff? I guess subscribers will be getting really excited at the prospect! Who was it building up expectations excessively? Who was promising this that and a wonderful other on the way to 3G Nirvana with W-CDMA? I bet Unicom will be getting fidgety! They are now on the road with an IPO blustering about their great upgrade path from wonderful spectrum-wasting and dead-end GSM to GPRS, EDGE, and hallelujah brother, full-blown DS-CDMA. I do feel sorry for them though - trying to run a commercial business in a political nuthouse. Reading the contradictory comments by the poor boss of Unicom, trying to find his way through a maze of political intrigue and commercial reality must be impossible - decades of training in the crazy world of China must help, but it can't be fun. CDMA proponents should be under no illusions - 50 years of totalitarian communism is NOT something to celebrate [assuming you are still alive to do so]. Commercial sense has no place in that realm but they seem to be trying and doing better these days. CDMA is NOT a sure thing. They will do any crazy thing they like - check out Europe, still swamped in GSM and some silly dream of GPRS, the Bleeding EDGE and so on. Stupidity knows no borders. Including the USA's. New Zealand is competing well - with business confidence here plummeting with stupidity gaining ground. Mqurice