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To: Gus who wrote (5441)	6/12/2000 5:11:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 34857

I haven't seen a CDMA promise of 13 x TDMA capacity Gus. The biggest promise I've seen is 10 x analogue and 2 or 3 times TDMA. The past few months with 1X and HDR there has been talk of doubling capacity. which would mean 20xanalogue. Companies have performance guarantees. Various cdmaOne service providers would have sued their suppliers if they were not getting agreed performance. There isn't much point in relitigating all this old erroneous stuff which WSJ has written, allegedly false promises etc. CDMA was proven right, so forget the old stuff. It's gone. Yes, I know Nokia signed a license with Q! back in 1990 [maybe 1991 - I forget now]. My point was to show that CDMA is a success and that Nokia will be buying it [3G] from Q! You seem to be denying that CDMA was successful and Q! technology will succeed in 3G. Now you say HDR is vaporware? Gus, it's a real, demonstrated product with sampled ASICs and President Clinton has fiddled around with it. That's not what people call vaporware. Vaporware is what people announce when they haven't actually got anything that works in the manner suggested - it's a pre-emptive promise or claim to dissuade competitors or to delay buyers of competing products. DS-CDMA seems still to be very much in the vaporware category [if not Vapour-Wear]. The early phase of MC-CDMA is NOT vaporware - it's real already and rolling out this year. GPRS is another one which is not vaporware. It's not ready quite, but nearly and will roll out by Xmas. Minuscule cdmaOne market? 70 million subscribers is NOT minuscule. Okay, I'm sick of it and am leaving the building! Maurice