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To: mightylakers who wrote (12034)	6/11/2000 7:31:00 PM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 13582

Lakers, << request from RB ... early 1997 W$J article ... a new idea that might just work that went against the common consensus (called CDMA)? >> I did a quick check of my own disk archives for Qualcomm in 1997 and came up with no WSJ article. It would seem to me that the WSJ archives could be searched under "Jacobs". I don't subscribe the online WSJ. Of course the most famous 1997 article on Qualcomm published in 1997, and one that got lots of people watching QCOM was "Telecosm and Beyond: Over The Paradigm Cliff" by George Gilder. It is available here: cdg.org This can't be the article the RB poster references because there is only one reference to the "ex-MIT professor with a new idea": >> Irwin Jacobs of Qualcomm uses a cocktail party analogy. In TDMA, each person gets to speak for a brief time. In CDMA, everyone speaks at once, using different languages. But there is a crucial caveat. This tactic succeeds only if everyone speaks at about the same volume. A stentorian guest will overwhelm everyone else. Thus the heart of the Qualcomm system is power control. Because all the signals use the same frequency, they must all reach the base station at the same power level. << Interestingly enough the famous Gilder piece also reference mentions Ira Brodsky who I have clipped and quoted here today and his adversary, the great TDMA advocate, Bill Frezza. Unfortunately the CMP link referenced is out of date. - Eric -