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To: hueyone who wrote (26488)	6/19/2000 1:11:00 AM
From: gdichaz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

hueyone: Both Rose and you seems very perceptive. Excellent points from the Qualcomm perspective. In addition, in Hong Kong, Dr J announced that both 1xMC and 1xHDR are now capable of being used on the GSM infrastructure base. This means that the practical possibility is there for 1xMC to begin to be installed as an airface overlay on the huge GSM infrastructure base worldwide (except Europe probably for many non tech reasons) as soon as early next year - with 1xHDR following starting the middle of next year. This would mean (if it should happen) that at least some of the current GSM base would begin the path to CDMA 2000 rather than WCDMA (or to use the new terminology MC rather than DS). The obstacles to this happening are: political, bureaucratic and inertial. Companies such as Nokia would fight it tooth and nail. However, and here is a key, if Nokia became a 1xMC / 1xHDR supplier, that set of obstacles might be a bit less daunting. Will be most interesting to watch. Best.