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To: Rajala who wrote (75502)	7/6/2000 3:12:26 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 152472

Classic> To: Rajala who wrote (18385) From: Gregg Powers Monday, November 16, 1998 2:58 PM ET Reply # of 75510 Rajala: Invent was in quotes to indicate sarcasm, i.e. Ericsson has not "invented" W-CDMA...it has attempted to expropriate it. It is quite a relief to understand that you worship at the altar of the great, all-truthful Swedish god. I guess Bill Frezza's disinformation campaign never happened...OR...did Ericsson's former director of marketing and business development predict the demise of CDMA in contravention of the all-truthful Swedish god?

To: Rajala who wrote (75502)	7/6/2000 3:26:37 PM
From: Uncle Frank	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

>> CDMA is for code division multiple access, which is a very generic term for how the bits are sent and received. They are not time divided like TDMA, but divided by code. Very generic description of a functionality for which Q has no universal patent. The first sentence is absolutely correct. We all know the story of Rita Hayworth and military development of cdma during WWII. The second sentence is pure sophistry and misdirection. Qualcomm developed and patented processes in the area of soft hand-off and power management that make CDMA commercially viable. Without their portfolio, which I believe now approaches 1000 patents, cdma is an antique and useless interface. Are you going to drag out the recycled fud about qcom's patents expiring or the possibility of using IDC ipr to escape royalties? Please don't bother. Seriously, Rajala, if you don't have anything new to add, why waste bandwidth posting here? uf btw, you still haven't responded to my question about royalty liabilities on the wcdma open standard.

To: Rajala who wrote (75502)	7/6/2000 3:34:18 PM
From: ggamer	Respond to of 152472

FUD News Alert, Thursday July 6th, 2000: Nokia has announced that they will be Marketing a WideWindows2000 product next year bypassing licensing agreements for Microsoft's previous Windows product. Their version of windows will be 15 times faster and easier to use. Most of European companies have applauded Nokia's effort and are looking forward to combine their future efforts under the same umbrella. This is just a headline more to follow.