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To: w molloy who wrote (12825)	6/21/2000 10:22:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 13582

molloy, do you know who is making the handsets for DoCoMo, W-cdma May deployment.? Is It NEC? Ruff

To: w molloy who wrote (12825)	6/21/2000 10:26:00 PM
From: engineer	Respond to of 13582

I think your mistaken. I believe Korean PCS is also 1800 mhz. I think the issue here is not if CDMA can work in 1800 MHZ, but rather which country it is compatible with for raoming. 1800 makes it raom to europe in GSM or Korea in PCS, 1900 makes it roam to US. It is quite a simple task to move the center frequency down from 1900 to 1800 Mhz. Q already did this for Korean PCS and it took them like 3 months from start to finish on the Q phone.

To: w molloy who wrote (12825)	6/21/2000 10:28:00 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13582

What if a Brazilian company got organized to produce 1800 mhz handsets and infrastructure, in cooperation with the companies with a license to use that waveband? If the price of the equipment was right, wouldn't people just stop using GSM, particularly if the handsets had a chip that could handle both GSM and CDMA?