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To: Curbstone who wrote (77245)	7/19/2000 8:14:42 PM
From: GO*QCOM	Respond to of 152472

"If WCDMA truly is an inferior product wouldn't Q be shooting itself in the foot financially and otherwise to commit precious resources to it?" Once Q commits to developing WCDMA wouldn't their enemies immediately start harping on any delays in bringing a decent WCDMA solution to market? WCDMA seems like a Nipponavian red herring to me." QUALCOMM will lose nothing by commiting resources to WCDMA despite the inferior nature compared to CDMA 2000.The reason for this is to get control of ALL 3G CDMA and thus harmonizing to help WCDMA become the standard it could be would work to bring all CDMA equitment providers under one CDMA umbrella which I belive will happen after the big two sign the license agreement.

To: Curbstone who wrote (77245)	7/19/2000 8:16:21 PM
From: Jon Koplik	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Re : W-CDMA sucks (or, does not even exist, possibly), but ... the world keeps acting like it is gravitating toward it. My take on this has always been : Qualcomm decided : If the whole world is going to pretend they are moving to W-CDMA, we at Qualcomm will also pretend that W-CDMA is a real, viable 3G technology. Meanwhile, we (QCOM) will facilitate at least a few wireless carriers in the U.S. and Korea to quickly begin installing and operating 1X and CDMA 2000 systems. The ultimate resolution should take care of itself (as long as corporations are allowed to freely make decisions). Jon.