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To: ivanelterible who wrote (76664)	7/15/2000 12:43:18 PM
From: Uncle Frank	Respond to of 152472

Your concluding paragraph is a fine summation of qcom's 3G prospects, Ivan, and deserves to be re-printed. In summary, WCDMA is not so much a European standard as it is a European modified Qualcomm standard. These modifications contain some GSM type elements at the expense of spectral efficiency provided by the pure Qualcomm standards. Qualcomm however, was in a strong enough position to extract the same royalty fee for CDMA transmission regardless of "flavor". Future WCDMA operators (if there are very many, and I ultimately doubt it very much that there will), however, can be reasonably sure that they will be competing against providers with a superior mousetrap, CDMA2000 and HDR. If I knew how, I'd nominate your contribution as Cool Post of the Day. uf