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To: slacker711 who wrote (5166)	5/31/2000 8:13:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

China Unicom says CDMA plans on track-paper BEIJING, June 1 (Reuters) - China's number two state telecommunications company China Unicom has said its plans to build a CDMA network are still on track, the China Daily newspaper reported on Thursday. ``We have not received any official document to call off the construction and deployment of a CDMA network in China,'' the paper quoted an unnamed Unicom spokesman as saying. Unicom officials were quoted this week by analysts in Hong Kong as saying plans to use current generation CDMA technology developed by San Diego-based Qualcomm Inc (NasdaqNM:QCOM - news) were dead. That news helped drive down Qualcomm's share price

To: slacker711 who wrote (5166)	6/1/2000 5:18:00 AM
From: Puck	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

Ericsson has a very formidable CDMA related patent portfolio due to their long history of military communications research. They were studying CDMA before Qualcomm was even a twinkle in Irwin Jacob's grandiose eye. Qualcomm's dirty little secret is that they'll be paying Ericsson substantial royalties for the use of Ericsson's CDMA patents in being able to license their own. Even though Ericsson officials, being humble Scandinavians, have chosen not to make grand pronouncements that they own the wireless future, as have their colleagues across the pond, they are just as entitled to make such chest thumping declarations given the strength of their intellectual property.