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To: elmatador who wrote (4183)	7/19/2000 5:08:24 AM
From: Mika Kukkanen	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 5390

"Good for Siemens"? For those wanting to know why Elmatador said good for Siemens in his last post, the reason is that Siemens (along with Alcatel) developed a competing wideband CDMA specification for ULTRA/UMTS standard in the ETSI approval process a 2 1/2 years ago. Siemens version was for TD-WCDMA. It was approved on the understanding it could be used for pico cells (indoors and high density situations, e.g., town centres). The Chinese wideband CDMA development is fairly similar. For those who don't remember, ITU's IMT-2000 had several 'layers' and goals. These depended on a particular situation, i.e., pedestrian (including ETSI's DECT - a faster version), wide area mobile network (this is where the cdma2000 vs WCDMA war is) and satellite. Minimum requirements were set on bit rates for each of these sectors. Footie season only a month or so away! Can't wait. Elmatador - Maybe we take bets on when Siemens get their first 3G contract? Will they have to rely on Telekom, or has the Mannesmann take-over shaken up the German business thinking?