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To: Uncle Frank who wrote (76724)	7/16/2000 1:18:55 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Yes, UF and just as MCI bought 1 bn minutes from NextWave, which never were actually sold and neither was the network built. A total mess and all thanks to the absurd Congress-set rules to favour small companies, women and people with the right DNA as determined by a colour-chart or some such and exacerbated by C-block auction rules requiring no money up-front before bidding. W-CDMA contracts can't really have performance guarantees yet, since the design isn't finalized. All half-baked contracts and all can be cancelled. I guess they are VaporWare contracts, designed to demoralize the cdma2000 people who see all W-CDMA arrayed against them. Sort of like USSR marching across Red Square with paper-mache rockets to make them look good! There is no W-CDMA! The emperor is NOT wearing any clothes. Mqurice

To: Uncle Frank who wrote (76724)	7/16/2000 1:21:22 AM
From: waverider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Frank, how do you stand it?

To: Uncle Frank who wrote (76724)	7/16/2000 1:44:53 AM
From: J Krnjeu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Hello Everyone, Can't believe you guys are still up this late posting. Even during the week posting at this hour. While, I just wanted to say thank you for all your time you take on keeping the rest of us up to date. Lurking all the time just no time to post, working about 10 hours a day. Thanks again, uf, Ruffin, Diamond, Marquice and everyone. Still can't believe any company would contract for WCDMA when it doesn't exist yet and is not as efficent(SP?) as CDMA2000 is suppose to be. Thank You JK

To: Uncle Frank who wrote (76724)	7/16/2000 10:14:03 AM
From: samim anbarcioglu	Respond to of 152472

Referring to WCDMA: >>No company would make a hard commitment without testing and qualifying the system's performance and equipment, which simply doesn't exist yet.<< Further, no company would make a commitment to a system (WCDMA) when everyone knows the vendor does not have a licence agreement, is in dispute with the IPR owner, will lose most certainly in court. Which company in the world would sign a commitment to spend all that money and before they can start operation, a court order to shut down is delivered. QCOM management said repeatedly that they will vigorously defend our IPR. To me, that means preventing an illegal operation from starting up by court order.